Re: a question on performance
On Thursday 18 July 2002 06:42 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:58:41PM -0700, Derek Gladding wrote:
> | On Thursday 18 July 2002 04:39 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> | > what could be the reason that my X (4.1, Woody, ATI Radeon card
> | > with VESA driver) is not as performant as it could be on a 1.2GHz
> | > PIII with 1Gb of RAM?
> |
> | Hmm, no answers, but some ideas:
> |
> | (1) VESA driver is painfully slow - it works, but does everything
> | in software, gobbling up huge chunks of CPU.
>
> While that's true, VESA isn't as bad as martin is describing his
> situation.
>
Yes, agreed - I've had to use the VESA stuff in emergencies before, and
it's more usable than Martin is describing. My guess would be that the
CPU is blocking on something else (possibly the HD, hence thought #2).
- Derek
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