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Nathan Hand <nathan.hand@anu.edu.au> writes:

> 
> fdhnfu@vayvax.pbz writes:
> 
> > want extras you have to deal with the performance decrease.  Most WPs for
> > Linux are X based. X is pretty durn big, and has a sizable overhead by
> > itself.
> 
> My X11 hardware terminal has 4 MB ram and 2 MB of that is allocated to
> font and bitmap cache. The processor runs at 25 MHz and is roughly the
> same as a 386DX16 for computational power. It runs like the blazer for
> doing X related stuff, all over a 2Mb Ethernet-based link.
> 
> So please don't claim that X is a hog, or that it has a "sizeable over
> head", or that it runs slow. It was designed *and* *used* in the 1980s
> when processing power and memory was expensive. By todays standards it
> is a minimalist system!

One of my client's uses X to an SGI running a modeling package.

When he uses certain parts of the package, the network when quiet
(less than 3% load) will jump to a 40% load for minutes at a time.

Every other user on the network segment notices...

Not saying that we should replace it, but it isn't the most efficient
thing on the planet.

-- 
...BRU

Bruce Cook,  Synonet Corp.
E-Mail: bcook@wantree.com.au
Phone:  +061 15 999 330