Re: Refreshing windows as often as possible, but not too often

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> OK, I've tried it, and it still trashes the user interface, or goes
> slower than it should, depending on timeout. How do I choose the
> appropriate magic timeout value?
> 
> More to the point ... _why_ does it behave so badly?
>

The kernel isn't giving the X server enough processor time. The magic
number will depend on the person's X server, their video card, their
kernel, the amount of RAM they have, their processor speed, their cache,
and the set of other processes that are running. Obviously this is a
computationally intractable problem. :-) The only solution is to a) get a
faster computer or b) demand fewer resources, for example by using a
timeout instead of an idle.

Havoc