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- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 07:40:00 -0500
- To: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk>,
- Per Erik Gullberg <pergull@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
- From: kemp@convex.convex.com (Phil Kemp)
- Subject: Re: Linux executor help
- Cc: executor@nacm.com, jdc@xinside.com
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- At 08:17 AM 6/19/95 +0100, Zoology wrote:
- >In your message (Sat, 17 Jun 1995 18:38:18 -0600 (MDT)), you wrote:
- >>I just installed executorlinux199m (demo) for Linux.
- >>
- >>It seems like executor is not responding to any X-events.
- >>No response to the mouse, keyboard or any update events.
- >>
- >>Executor will display the desktop properly at first.
- >>Once the desktop has been displayed it seems to freeze.
- >>
- >>I am using:
- >>
- >> Linux 1.1.72
- >> XFree86 3.1
- >> Pentium, with 32 Meg
- >> Logitech serial mouse
- >
- >The problem appears to be with the Linux X server, rather than
- >Executor, per se. I get very slow pointer updates too when running
- >executor displaying on a Linux X display. However, I tried running
- >it displaying on a Sun SparcStation running Solaris 2 and OpenWindows
- >3, and it behaved perfectly. Executor seems to be falling foul of
- >something in XFree86, possibly only in particular X servers. If
- >people with this problem mail me and tell me what their video
- >hardware is, I will post a summary to the list in the next couple of
- >days, see if we can establish a pattern.
-
- I had some really nasty problems with executor under linux using the
- xinside. After extensive testing the xinside folks determined that the
- something in executor was eating memory like crazy. It seems to me that
- Thomas said something about the cursor code having memory holes. I've copied
- the xinside for further comments.
-
- The xinside folks were able to fix this on the server end with a slight
- performance reduction( ~1 or 2 percent)
-
- Sounds like the executor folks might want to pursue this further.
-
- Comments, Jeremy?
-
- Cheers
- PK
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