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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!nick.arc.nasa.gov!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Upgrading to Xfree86 3.3 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:16:47 -0700 Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33B2F85F.6EEA@nas.nasa.gov> References: <5ngur1$qqp@ss.netgate.net> <5o6cjd$5sj$1@phoenix.kfu.com> <5oafds$k92$1@rabbit.augusta.de> <5omb79$t0m$1@phoenix.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: win144.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43590 comp.windows.x.i386unix:23697 Nick Sayer wrote: : [someone:] > >with 1600x1280 and 16bpp xengine says about 1000rpm (with XAccel and > >XFree) On a PPro200 w/ #9 Motion 771, for 1280x1024 at 16 bpp I get a little over 1000 RPM, and at 1024x768 at 32 bpp I get ~535. And for 1280x1024 at 8 bpp, I get ~1820. Is "xengine" a pretty good test of the total X server performance (as opposed to the client CPU and the client/ server speed)? This is my first exposure to xengine and I'm not sure what it measures. > 1152x900 32 bpp gives me ~350 RPM. 1600x1280 8 bpp gives me ~1200 RPM. > This is on a P120 32M. 32 bpp being 4 times as 'thick' makes sense > to be a quarter the speed of 8, but it looks like I am doing about half > as good as you are. -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.