anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (02/14/91)
Yesterday an odd thing happened. Using Terminal, the Format
menu item lets you make the window larger or smaller. Well,
just goofing around, I made it bigger, then smaller, then
bigger, I don't even know how many diddles each way. But
after a while I noticed that the whole machine seemed to be
plowing through a slough of cold molasses. If I grabbed a
window and dragged, it moved in several giant jumps,
separated by quite noticeable intervals (a couple hundred
milliseconds, I'd say).
Well, that got my attention, all right. I quit Terminal. I
logged out. I rebooted the machine. I logged in. I
started Terminal. No change -- still molasses.
Pulling out Preferences, I clicked on Revert, and guess
what? Fast windows once again!
I'd figured that each of the larger/smaller steps had
resulted in something like envelopes of PS
scale & gsave/grestore, and that ten or twelve of them had
pushed the DispPS overhead *way* up. But I was surprised
that quitting Terminal, loggin out, and booting (singly, let
alone all three) had not done away with the problem.
Seems curious, but that's what it did. It was cold outside,
but I don't think that made any difference. :-)
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