Source of the multithreaded Xserver / was: Re: Security question?
Roland Mainz
roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Thu Nov 4 13:26:42 PST 2004
Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 10 o'clock on Nov 4, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > We have epoll() but I've seen no evidence it makes any difference at
> > such a low connection count.
>
> I've got two data points which suggest that we could see modest
> performance gains with the elimination of select:
>
> 1) The multi-threaded X server was faster than the single-threaded X
> server when large numbers of clients were connected (it blocked in
> read(2) and never used select(2)).
BTW: Is the source of the multithreaded Xserver still anywhere available
?
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Roland
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