could CTWM cause the X server to rack up cycles?

From: Robert J. Brown (rj@eli.elilabs.com)
Date: Wed Jan 28 1998 - 22:27:14 CET


>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Selberg <selberg@cs.washington.edu> writes:

    Erik> I notice that it still tends to swap when I shift workspaces
    Erik> to a great degree; Netscape often seems to get swapped out,
    Erik> and switching to a different workspace is often slow. I
    Erik> asked out SGI guy, and he noticed that the X server on my
    Erik> machine had nearly 100x more CPU usage than his. Could this
    Erik> be due to ctwm, or possible ctwm interactions with Netscape?
    Erik> Is there some way I can test this to see what could be
    Erik> causing this, without using another wm and seeing if the
    Erik> problem goes away?

Are you using photographic backgrounds, or just solid colors? Photos
use a ton of memory, and the page when you switch desktops. Solid
colors are much easier on the machine, but I like photos, so too bad
machine. :-)

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