Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 15:55:24 +1000 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anyone run x11perf on 2.1.5-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199608310555.PAA03429@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608310303.UAA18422@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Aug 30, 96 08:03:08 pm
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>Out of curiosity, I started up x11perf when I got home from work this >afternoon. The machine is doing nothing else -- but x11perf has been runing >for two and a half hours. It's now reporting that it is doing 4 repts @21 >seconds (that's 21, 000 msec!) for the 500x500 GetImage. The X server has >slowed down incredibly, to the point where moving the cursor around results >in sio overruns on the serial port! > >This is the S3-accellerated server. > >The machine has 64MBytes of RAM, and 256M of swap; top reports it is using >22M of RAM, and only 64k of swap. x11perf appears to be gathering no more >CPU time, but the X server is eating up 99+% of the CPU! That particular operation isn't accelerated (for format != ZPixmap), and it is falling back to the extremely slow machine-independent code. So far it hasn't annoyed anyone enough for them to do something about it :-(. David
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