kdrive performance

[Damian Gatabria]

Well, sorry. I didn't know more than one
kdrive server existed. Looks like my knowledge of this project
is too poor to ask a decent question =oP

 I just followed the steps specified in
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXserver_2fInstallGuide

I checked out all that stuff from cvs, compiled and installed
as the guide says, and then went into xserver and configured it
with the long line i described in my first post.

That left me with one Xvesa executable, about 2,9 MB in size,
which is what i'm testing now.

The tests are quite simple in nature, but the difference between
(this) Kdrive and XFree3 is very noticeable during normal use in 
this kind of hardware.

I'm using it for a thin client project, so i only need xserver
to display one full screen Terminal Server (or Citrix) session
to a Windows server.

When using Kdrive, i can actually see new windows being drawn
from top to bottom, and scrolling gives the same effect, all kinds
of screen updates are much slower. 




El mié, 08-12-2004 a las 11:10 +0000, Matthew Allum escribió:
> What tests did you actually run ?
> 
> What kdrive server did you use ?
> 
>   -- Matthew
> 
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:13:56 -0300, Damian Gatabria
> <damian at gatabria.com.ar> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again.
> > 
> >         I've run my first tests using Kdrive on low-end
> > computers (AMD k6 running at 233 Mhz with 96MB of RAM and a
> > PCI Trident TGUI graphics card) and i've found it's
> > performace is noticeably lower when compared to
> > an old XFree86 release such as 3.3.6 running with the
> > "svga" driver. This is what this machine is running currently
> > but i'm in the need to switch to something smaller and/or
> > with a lower memory footprint.
> > 
> > This is what i'm using to build Kdrive:
> > 
> > ./configure  --disable-xv --disable-shape --disable-composite
> > --disable-xres --disable-xrecord --disable-screensaver --disable-xdmcp
> > --disable-xdm-auth-1 --disable-tcp-transport --disable-ipv6
> > 
> > I'm guessing that XFree3 is faster because being an
> > older piece of software, it's probably a lot simpler
> > in design. Is there a way to achieve similar results
> > using kdrive, or any documentation i can refer to?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
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