i've been using 1280x1024x32 on an nv18 with a greyscale font.
graphics performance is good. page is able to pan large images
smoothly. however, for a ~1000x750 window, i get these numbers
with various other load on the system:
0.00u 0.00s 49.32r cat /sys/games/lib/fortunes #
system is idle
0.00u 0.00s 50.29r cat /sys/games/lib/fortunes # load
avg of ~ 0.5
0.00u 0.00s 50.71r cat /sys/games/lib/fortunes # load
avg of ~ 0.9
0.00u 0.01s 63.46r cat /sys/games/lib/fortunes # load
avg > 1
running the same test with pelm.8, i get
0.00u 0.00s 1.08r cat /sys/games/lib/fortunes
the only obvious difference i see between the plan 9 driver and the xf86 stuff
is
that the xf86 stuff tries to buffer dma access a bit. is ths the key, or
should i be looking
at something else?
- erik
