On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 21:52 +0000, Nix wrote: > 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.
Again, it only runs once per second at most. Unless there's a bug in that logic. > 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.) Yeah, a profile would be interesting. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
