Package: xserver-common
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/X
At sarge, the X server is "slow", particularly for flushed (STDERR)
output into xterm or gnome-terminal. To demonstrate, run
p=`ps -fC XFree86`
time perl -e '$|=1; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print "
$x\n" }'
#time perl -e 'foreach $x (1..500) { print STDERR "x" foreach(1..$x); print
STDERR " $x\n" }'
echo "$p"; ps -fC XFree86
in a terminal window: takes 18 seconds on a dual-Xeon2.2GHz and 50
seconds on a Celeron2GHz, with /usr/bin/X11/X taking almost 100% CPU
time. At woody the above completed in under 1 second.
It is interesting to see more than one of those running simultaneously
in several windows: only one at a time is "running".
Cheers,
Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-spm1.5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
-- debconf information:
xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10
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