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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Computing resources used up by X
Message-ID: <9007262124.AA18843@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 26 Jul 90 21:24:05 GMT
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> I have heard that running X on a Sun Sparcstation uses up close to
> half of the available mips.  Is this true?

Yes and no...Running X on a machine can use up anything from nearly
zero to nearly all of the available cycles.  It all depends on what
you're doing, and is true regardless of the machine (unless the machine
is incredibly slow, in which case the minimum percentage is higher).

> Also, how much runtime memory is typically used by X ?

I doubt there is a "typical" figure that really means anything.  I'm on
a Sun-3/50 with 4 Mb of core at the moment and it's swapping itself to
death - but it's not clear how much of this can be ascribed to X
itself, how much to my work habits, and how much to whatever programs
happen to be running at the moment.

> How would these numbers vary is someone were to run the Motif window
> manager instead of xwm ?

I don't know, never having used either of them - but I would guess that
this is a minor variable which gets swallowed in the major ones of work
habits, other programs, etc.

					der Mouse

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