Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!alias!rae%alias
From: rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,alias.general
Subject: Re: X Windows performance on PI
Summary: setting DISPLAY to "unix:0" speeds things up
Keywords: X, DISPLAY, unix:0
Message-ID: <472@alias.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 21:21:19 GMT
References: <14134@shamash.cdc.com>
Sender: rae@alias.UUCP
Reply-To: rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis)
Organization: T'nir Software
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pwp@shamash.UUCP (Pete Poorman - HOUFAC) writes:
|Does anyone know how the Turbo Graphics option affects X-windows performance
|on a Personal IRIS? (For applications running locally -- not across a network.)
|
|I've heard that IRIX 3.2 provides a big improvement, but I'm looking for
|all I can get.

Something that was recently pointed out to me was that you can improve the
performance of X applications on Iris consoles by setting your DISPLAY to be
"unix:0" rather than "localhost:0".  Apparently, the latter causes some
interaction with network daemons, whereas the former goes straight to work,
so to speak.
					Reid
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