DECW Server vs MWM priorities

I am currently running MOZILLA on the ALPHA, but displayed on my VAXstation 3100-30 (still).

There are times when it works relatively well. But there are times where the DECW$SERVER0 process on the VAX goes to 100% of CPU.

Trying to display a large image (weather radar)
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/Conus/RadarImg/latest.gif

Would cause the server to go into 100% for hours before finally displaying a blank page (no error message). Probably has something to do with converting from 24 bit data to the 8bit coloyur scheme of the SPX card.
(I let this run before going to bed).

During this time, no redrawing of the window is done if you move it and the window "grabs" whatever was at the location you are moving it to.

A page such as IMDB.COM with animated gifs would take the DECW$SERVER to 100% and have an extremely sluggish response. Tried to type a new URL, but that took too long. Found out that rezing the window to hize an animated gif did the trick and finally the typing I had done in the URL box started to trickle in. Interestingly, the alpha was at near 0% usage, it was the DECW$SERVER0 on the VAX that was at 100% (didn't realise that the animation would put such a load on the server).



Anyhow, I expect those issues to go away once I get my keyboard and get the Alpha to handle the DECW session, as well as the 24 bit Radeon card to display in 24 bits, removing the need to convert all images to pseudo colours (as is done on the SPX card).


HOWEVER:

I have noticed that the MWM process is created with base priority of 4 whilsyt the DECW$SERVER is created at based priority of 6.

Shouldn't both be at the same priority ? (so that other window operations are not stopped by one window monopolizing DECW$SERVER0 operations) ?
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