[plt-scheme] DrScheme ate my CPU

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 10 12:40:34 EDT 2003

How is the memory? Is it paging?

Robby

At Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:52:32 -0400, Daniel Pinto de Mello e Silva wrote:
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> I hadn't really noticed this for a while, but since compiling
> 205.3-cvs1oct2003, DrScheme routinely grabs almost 90% CPU usage for up
> to half a minute when switching to one of its windows, clicking around
> the editor, opening a new window, etc.
> 
> SirMail is less painful, the included games run mostly fine, and
> web-server-text doesn't ever seem to take much CPU time.
> 
> I'm running linux, X 4.3 with accelerated drivers, and compiled MrEd
> with Xft support.  Is the issue specific to this platform?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 



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