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