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Re: Loading Word5.1 files seem slow



>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen P Lee <splee@sfu.ca> writes:
In article <4qui0a$pf4@morgoth.sfu.ca> splee@sfu.ca (Stephen P Lee) writes:


    Stephen> I'm running E/L 1.99q12 on 1.2.13 and have 16M ram. Every
    Stephen> so often Word 5.1 files (after Word loaded) takes longer
    Stephen> than usual to display on the screen. I say display
    Stephen> because the harddrive is not spinning so I think the file
    Stephen> has already been loaded. The files are only 5 or 6 pages
    Stephen> long. My recollection is that the Word files seemed to
    Stephen> load quicker before.  Executor is started with -applzone
    Stephen> 5500k -syszone 0.75M -stack 0.5M -nosplash -nosound
    Stephen> -geometry =1015x725+0+0 switches.

I haven't seen this.  I do know that 1.2.13 doesn't do paging as well
as some of the 1.3.x kernels or the 2.0 kernel.  Does your hard drive
light normally go on when using the hard drive under Linux?  It
doesn't on our system.  My guess is paging, but it's only a guess and
that would mean that your hard drive *would* be active during this
time.

    Stephen> Another minor irritant is that sometimes scrolling
    Stephen> (screen redraw) is quite slow. If I move to another
    Stephen> virtual page (FVWM) for a while and then come back,
    Stephen> redrawing seems to be normal again.

Again that sounds like a paging anomaly.  The Linux machine I use the
most has 32 Mb and is running kernel 2.0 (and before that was running
1.3.x for a long time).  I don't use FVWM, so any of those things
might be relevant.

    Stephen> Is there any thing I can do to fix these minor problems?
    Stephen> E/L has for the most part been a very productive tool for
    Stephen> me.

Maybe another E/L user will have more info.  There's nothing within
Executor itself that I know of that would cause the trouble you're
seeing.

    Stephen> thanks, stephen -- Stephen P. Lee Office: (604) 291-4291
    Stephen> Department of Biological Sciences Fax: (604) 291-3496
    Stephen> Simon Fraser University E-mail: Stephen_p_lee@sfu.ca
    Stephen> Burnaby, BC, Canada. V5A 1S6

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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