ATTENTION: users of commercial X servers

1997-08-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi everybody. Those of you who use commercial X servers might have already encountered problem with gziped fonts supplied with Xfree86-3.3. The root of the problem is your server most probably can't handle gziped font files (with .gz suffix) but it CAN handle _compressed_ font files (with .Z suf

Re: ATTENTION: users of commercial X servers

1997-08-04 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- If I just uncompressed the fonts, would the server run faster? - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+ViN/MRUhbnJu3lAQE3owMAmQZT9u4Bf5um8Zv+kSwIw8vMVqslixf8 dshWl4GvBf1hybfNvQQY+ZwAY+SMRYARq1RB2bu8FKgYe1s3J+Y1pA0EEo5oeL

Re: ATTENTION: users of commercial X servers

1997-08-04 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> If I just uncompressed the fonts, would the server run faster? > > -Paul Having fonts comressed will increase CPU load when application requests font not in server's cache (usually at startup). But uncompression takes _much_ less time than compression and even on 386SX uncompression of a single

Re: ATTENTION: users of commercial X servers

1997-08-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Actually, for older IDE drives, uncompressing the fonts on a fast machine may make the machine run slower, since the font maybe uncompressed by the CPU faster than the extra uncompressed data can be read off the disks. manoj -- "Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his