Thomas Schuerger wrote in message ID <199904131923.vaa21...@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>: > cvsup is mostly based on disk (and network) I/O, so there shouldn't > be a problem with properly updating the GUI. Someone said it is > done in a separate process, so I still wonder why the GUI is updated > so slowly on my PII/450.
My bet is that when cvsup blocks on network or disk i/o, the process is blocked (since we don't have kernel support for thread scheduling), so the display update gets blocked as well... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
