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From: august@ole.UUCP (Augustine Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 screen saver
Message-ID: <511@ole.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 00:49:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: ole.511
References: <8810200154.AA14533@hplcyy.HPL.HP.COM> <8810201154.AA15644@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: august@ole.UUCP (Augustine Chan)
Organization: Seattle Silicon Corporation, Bellevue, WA.
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In article <8810201154.AA15644@LYRE.MIT.EDU> swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) writes:
>>   Charles (I don't want to hack my server) Young
>
>So don't hack your server; just do 'xset s 3600'.  (If you can keep
>your fingers off the keyboard/pointer for an hour and your program
>is still drawing they maybe you need to modify something else :-)

When your client program is graphics intensive, e.g., a VLSI layout
editor displaying a microprocessor, the displaying could take more
than an hour.

Part of the reason it can take this long is the unimpressive graphics
speed of X11R2 on popular platforms such as the Sun and the Apollo.
The graphics speed of our applications is about 3 to 4 times slower
on Apollo(DN3000)-X11 than on Apollo's GPR graphics interface or on Sun3-X10.
The speed on Sun3-X11 is another 3 to 4 times slower than on Apollo-X11.
Something that takes 5 minutes to display on Apollo-GPR or Sun3-X10
can take up to an hour on the Sun3-X11 server.

Until there is satisfactory graphics speed on X11,
I'll always use 'xset s off'.


		Augustine Chan