On Thursday 19 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can certainly script it with -geometry. But it is the wrong >> application for this matter, because you benchmark X more than >> glxgears itself. What would be better is something like a line >> rotating 360 degrees and doing some short stuff between each degree, >> so that X is not much sollicitated, but the CPU would be spent more on >> the processes themselves. > >at least on my setup glxgears goes via DRI/DRM so there's no X >scheduling inbetween at all, and the visual appearance of glxgears is a >direct function of its scheduling. > > Ingo
That doesn't appear to be the case here Ingo. Even when I know the rest of the system is lagged, glxgears continues to show very smooth and steady movement. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yow! I just went below the poverty line! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
