On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:04 pm, you wrote:

> IN ADDITION, the patch did nothing for OpenGL/graphics
> latency. The behaviour of xmms' OpenGL spectrum
> analyzer was the same under 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 with
> the ckolivas patches. The animation stutters badly
> when you move a window around. Experiments with
> renicing different threads accomplished nothing 'cept
> to make things even less responsive. Disappointing...
> Not sure if this is due to the way XFree works (no
> pervasive multithreading) or the patches simply aren't
> effective.

Same here. Whenever I install a new Linux release in my machine, I play an 
mp3 in xmms with the OpenGL spectrum analyzer plugin active. Seeing how well 
the animation runs somehow provides me with a rough benchmark of the kernel 
and Xfree performance combo. I also open a lot of windows and graphic files 
to see how well the graphic environment stands up to this stress.

mikol


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