Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!daveb From: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: Re: pc7300 ua performance Message-ID: <586@rtech.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 12:51:44 EDT Article-I.D.: rtech.586 Posted: Wed Aug 7 12:51:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 05:10:46 EDT References: <141@gwsd.UUCP>, <316@ttrdc.UUCP> <1071@homxa.UUCP> <405@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 20 > People here tend to think in terms of Cray-2s, so I don't have > access to any UNIX PC to find out: Is the "user agent" worth > having? There have been reports that it's a real CPU burner.. Doug, For you, probably not unless you want multiple shell windows. For the 99.995% of the people who are, at best, casual administrators it looks worthwhile. The appearance of CPU killer seems to come from the way the ua forks off another process with another window to do almost anything. The real problem is the crappy mouse tracking, and I don't think that it is caused by the CPU greed of the ua as much as the context switching to whatever process is tracking the mouse. -dB -- {amdahl|dual|sun|zehntel}\ |"If his brains ran down, how could {ucbvax|decvax}!mtxinu---->!rtech!daveb |he talk?" ihnp4!{phoenix|amdahl}___/ |"Happens to people all the time...."