Re: XFree86 faster!?
Oliver Fromme wrote: > First of all -- yes, I noticed the sarcasm. > > While the speed improvement that Johannes experienced is > certainly desirable and should not be reversed, it _is_ > somewhat important to find out what caused it. Because > if the cause is unknown, then it could disappear one day > (maybe at the next update), rendering the system slower > again, and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it > because you have no clue what it is. Oh, I agree completely. I certainly didn't mean to imply that it wasn't important to find the cause ;) My apologies, I thought it would be slightly funnier without an explanation giving it away. I haven't noticed anything personally on my -stable machines, but perhaps if Johannes or someone else who's noticed it wants to be adventurous, and has a fast enough machine to do several buildworlds without too much pain, he could try a binary search with the CVS/CVSup dates and find out when the change happened. OFFTOPIC: Is anyone else experiencing odd delays with the mailing lists? For example, I got Ian's reply to Oliver, but have yet to receive Oliver's original reply to me (both sent to stable@). Both messages are in the archive already. I've seen many messages from both stable@ and current@ arriving quite out of order (some by several hours), so I suspect it will show up in my mailbox later. I'm inclined to think that there's a problem with my local MTA/DNS/etc., but I don't see the problem on other lists such as Bugtraq or my personal mail... Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: XFree86 faster!?
> I just upgraded from 4.6 Release to -STABLE (Jun 27 21:42:28). > My X feels much snappier now. Any ideas what might cause that? I'm curious about your mouse configuration. Are you using: Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" I remember hearing that certain other configurations could result in missing mouse interrupts. This would definitely result in slowness. Also, is the server you're using now accelerated, whereas the previous wasn't? -jj -- Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation. Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much good it did them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: XFree86 faster!?
Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Craig Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 14:44, Johannes Hofmann wrote: > > > I just upgraded from 4.6 Release to -STABLE (Jun 27 21:42:28). > > > My X feels much snappier now. Any ideas what might cause that? my 0.02 euro My perception is that it went slower at RC time, then back to normal post release. > > > > Have you filed a PR on this? I'm sure this is an issue that we would > > like to get resolved by 4.7-RELEASE if at all possible. > > First of all -- yes, I noticed the sarcasm. > > While the speed improvement that Johannes experienced is > certainly desirable and should not be reversed, it _is_ > somewhat important to find out what caused it. Because > if the cause is unknown, then it could disappear one day > (maybe at the next update), rendering the system slower > again, and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it > because you have no clue what it is. > > For what it's worth, I have no clue what it is, either. > > For the above reason, it is always preferable to know the > causes for any changes in system behaviour, no matter if > it changes in a positive or negative way. Computers are > not magic, and software is not voodoo. Everything has a > cause. > > Regards >Oliver > > PS: "Every sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from magic." (Unfortunately I don't > remember who said that.) > That'll be Arthur C. Clarke. His third law, in Profiles of the future for example. -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: XFree86 faster!?
I wrote about 10 minutes ago: > [...] > PS: "Every sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from magic." (Unfortunately I don't > remember who said that.) Some two dozen people have mailed me that it was Arthur C. Clark. Thanks a bunch for refreshing my memory, and now there's no reason to send me any more reminders. I certainly won't forget it again. :) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
