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

[Ben Laurie <ben algroup co uk>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, if you are saying that this is a design flaw in X, then I suppose
I can buy that. If you are saying it is an inherently intractable
problem, then I'm puzzled.

For example, I would've thought I could ask X to tell me when the server
was no longer busy, and do my stuff then.

Cheers,

Ben.

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