Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!applix!scott
From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: When is X server idle on Sun?
Message-ID: <840@applix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 17:53:11 GMT
References: <3330@emory.uucp>
Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <3330@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>1) The server seems to log a lot of cpu time even when there is no
>input or display activity. It looks like it must be in a sleep/poll
>loop, rather than depending entirely on select.  Is this unusual for X
>servers?

I noticed this on the R2 Sun server when built with -DSUNWINDOWS.
Without sunwindows support, the server stopped consuming cycles.
I didn't study it any farther than this.

-scott