On 17 Feb 2009, Michel Dänzer said: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:03 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> It shouldn't be too expensive usually and will only actually run at >> most once per second anyway, [...] > > Given this (and that 'Nix' hasn't complained about the BlockHandler > overhead :), I'd suggest trying this, and if people complain about weird > delays every second, we can reduce the frequency further or even remove > the BlockHandler defragmentation run altogether. Sounds good?
Well, defragmenting once every 20ms seems kind of excessive to me, but I suppose it won't have much to do in terms of bulk memory moves if the server is idle. I have noticed a slight increase in idle X server CPU consumption (it eats about 5% of my Athlon's CPU now even if nothing is happening and the screen is black), but compared to the immense amount that merely scrolling guzzled before that is acceptable. I haven't noticed any rendering delays though, so maybe the CPU load is coming from something else. (but still, it would be nice to fix. I'll give the server a profile sometime and see where that black-screen load is coming from.) _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
