Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread john wendel
Alan Cox wrote: regardless the difference between X and no X in each version/hardware is astounding! what are the reasons for this, your not telling me that X is chewing up that much cpu cycles to turn a 1minute 40sec operation into a 4minute 53sec one? Why do you assume this has anything to

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Mar 24th 2009 at 08:14 -, quoth Alan Cox: =>> regardless the difference between X and no X in each version/hardware is =>> astounding! what are the reasons for this, your not telling me that X is =>> chewing up that much cpu cycles to turn a 1minute 40sec operation into a =>> 4m

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Cox
> regardless the difference between X and no X in each version/hardware is > astounding! what are the reasons for this, your not telling me that X is > chewing up that much cpu cycles to turn a 1minute 40sec operation into a > 4minute 53sec one? Why do you assume this has anything to do with CP

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread psmith
Alan Cox wrote: I've got boxes at home running FC6, F8, and F10. The FC6 box is an old AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1.5GB memory, the F8 box is a P4 3 Ghz 2GB memory, and the F10 box is an Intel Core2 2.2 Ghz 4GB memory. For the test, I created a 1,000,000 line (80 byte lines, 80 MB) text file and timed "c

Re: Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Cox
> I've got boxes at home running FC6, F8, and F10. The FC6 box is an old > AMD Athlon 2Ghz 1.5GB memory, the F8 box is a P4 3 Ghz 2GB memory, and > the F10 box is an Intel Core2 2.2 Ghz 4GB memory. > > For the test, I created a 1,000,000 line (80 byte lines, 80 MB) text > file and timed "cat fi

Anyone else think X has a performance problem ?

2009-03-23 Thread john wendel
I first noticed the X slowdown when I installed F8. I've used every version of Fedora, and I noticed that the user experience with F8 was not as smooth as earlier versions. I spend most of my day hacking code in vi, so 2D video performance is important to me. I care nothing about 3D video. Whe