info on futexes: http://ds9a.nl/futex-manpages/
I'm not real familiar with them. Alex --- Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] emmanuel ALLAUD wrote: > > > This is perhaps a dumb idea, but could the futexes > > help here? I don't know if they have equivalent on > > other OSes than Linux. > > Bye > > Manu > > I don't see how they help. The problem is that the X-server > is in a situation where it has to wait for something to complete > before it can continue, and it knows that it will take a long time > before that something will complete. All it can do now is burn the > CPU during that time. > > I'm assuming futexes are some interprocess mutex mechanism? > If so, I don't see how this helps. > > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
