Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Chris Swiedler" <> | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:56:31 -0400 |
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> It doesn't practically matter how efficient the X server is when > you aren't busy, after all.
A simple polling scheme (i.e. not using poll() or select(), just looping through all fd's trying nonblocking reads) is perfectly efficient when the server is 100% busy, and perfectly inefficient when there is nothing to do. I'm not saying that your statements are wrong--in your example, X is calling select() which is not wasting as much time as a hard-polling loop--but it's wrong to say that high-load efficiency is the primary concern. I would be horrified if X took a signifigant portion of the CPU time when many clients were connected, but none were actually doing anything.
chris
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