On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 02:52:38AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 18:18, 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. > > How much of the subjective interactiveness-feel of the desktop is at the > mercy of the X server's scheduling and not the cpu scheduler?
probably a lot. Hence the reason why I wanted something visually noticeable but using far less X resources than glxgears. The modified orbitclock is perfect IMHO. Regards, Willy - 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/
