Re: Scheduler: -mm vs -staircase

From: J.A. Magallon
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 18:40:39 EST



On 06.26, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> El Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:56:54 +0200 "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> escribió:
>
>
> > I start /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -fps, and the frame rate starts at
> > 25 fps. In 30 seconds it has dropped to 6 fps. The app is still using
> > the same cpu time (about 90% of one cpu on a dual xeon box with ht).
>
> For that particular screensaver, notice that glmatrix starts drawing nothing.
> 30 seconds after the start there're lots of polygons so after 20 seconds
> it needs more processing power. It happens exactly the same
> but the difference is not so big, from 30fps to 24fps, perhaps
> you didn't enabled DRI acceleration?

This is very strange.
As I was logged in, gears gave aout 60 fps, and glmatrix degraded over time.
I have logged out and in, and gears is back to its 750 fps (GeForce FX 5200)
and glmatrix runs fine at a constant 30 fps rate (2.6.7-mm2+staircase).

raro, raro...

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