paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) (12/11/90)
Is it me or does anyone else out there notice how slow the Motif text widget is? I can type 2 to 3 lines of text before the display finish updating half the line. What can I do to speed up the performance? I am currently running Motif 1.1 on a 386 16MHZ with 6 Megs of memory. I notice a lot of disk swaps, is this why it is so slow, do I need more memory? Paul Siu paul@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (12/12/90)
> Is it me or does anyone else out there notice how slow the Motif text widget > is? I can type 2 to 3 lines of text before the display finish updating half > the line. What can I do to speed up the performance? I am currently running > Motif 1.1 on a 386 16MHZ with 6 Megs of memory. I notice a lot of disk swaps, > is this why it is so slow, do I need more memory? It's trashing on translations - if you page slow or you have little memory you'll run into trouble. The solution is actually in patches to the Intrinsics (to TMparse and friends). I sincerely hope that this patch will be forthcoming from OSF and/or the X Consortium sometime soon. In the meantime I have an unofficial patch file if anyone wants it, however I have seen at least one crash (although only when running the debug malloc and in a rather extreme set of circumstances) that may be due to the patch. On the other hand, if you're below the threshold on typing speed I think it's well worth it.