On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 00:14, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:35:19 +1100 > Brian Parish disseminated the following: > > > > I don't get skipping in any of my media players, unless I have my CPU maxed > > > out > > > doing something else, and I'm flippin' through desktops like a madman...does > > > Xinerama put a load on your CPU? > > > > Well I see X consistently in the top few processes running top and if I > > wangle a window around, it jumps to 70% of CPU. > > Well, that's normal, it just means the CPU is actually doing something. But it > shouldn't hesitate or respond slowly. > > > I guess that would be "load" by any definition. Maybe I should be looking > > into this instead of accepting it as harsh reality. I gather that you don't > > see this behavior when madly flipping? > > Not at all. For me, X uses about 16 MB of mem, and very little CPU load (0.3 > at idle). > > When 'madly flipping', I never see any hesitation or slow draws. I wouldn't > expect so, running a GF4 Ti.
Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on the sound when moving windows unless I run XMMS realtime. Wasn't required pre-xinerama, so I guess that's the difference. cheers Brian
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