On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]>wrote:
> As for the silly glxgears test, I think the original intent was to use > it as a quick exercise of the X/OpenGL/driver path and perhaps as a > benchmark of the graphics performance if the path works (although > graphics guys are quick to tell us it isn't a benchmark). > > For latency testing purposes, it might help smoke out problems with the > graphics subsystem---some drivers and some chips grab hold of DMA for > example. > glxgears can slow down the computer, but I've never really seen it blow up the latency numbers much. The worst latency I got on the last computer I stress tested was starting a Java program off of the cd drive. Historically, the worst latency problems on the PC architecture were from disk accesses. All the other problems are really driver related as far as I can tell Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
