performance NeWS vs. X11R4

[John Stephens]

A number of our users have been complaining of declining performance
of there 12 MB 4.1.1 SparcStations while running openlook. Looking
at comparative perfmeters versus my machine with a generic R4
installation and mwm1.1, I can see very little difference *except*

on the openlook machines, it appears that the xnews process is 
taking up an inordinate amount of the ram/cpu. From a typical ps
(edited to fit the page):

%CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS START  TIME COMMAND
 0.0 25.3 3184 2716 16:38 264:01 xnews :0 -auth $HOME/.xnews.$HOST:0
 0.0  0.0   40    0 16:38   0:00 xinit - - xnews :0 -auth /net/grizzly/tool2

This is after the machine has been up just under 24 hours. Why is xnews
soaking up 250+ cpu minutes (more than 10 minutes per hour !) and 25%
of the ram ?!!!

Thanks for shedding light on the darkness,

Jack
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