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.
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