carey@m.cs.uiuc.edu (12/29/89)
I want to test different servers. That is, I want to compare servers
on various X-terminals, Suns, Dec workstations, etc.
What would be a good way to do this? I am not looking for an extremely
rigourous text, and I don't really feel like downloading 30 or 40 mb of
the X Test Suite, which I am sure has a lot of protocol tests and so forth.
But we are evaluating X terminals (and by comparison Suns and so forth),
but I have no idea how to do it.
Subjective things like when you pop up a window, "it sure seems fast",
are not real helpful.
Any ideas? If there are some good tests in the X Test Suite, maybe
someone could make available that part of it.
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John Carey
University of Illinois
Dept. of Computer Science
carey@a.cs.uiuc.edu
{uu-net,pur-ee,convex,...}!uiucdcs!careyrws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/29/89)
If performance is what you're concerned about, I suggest you try using x11perf, from Digital. The latest version is available via anonymous ftp on expo, and will also be included in R4. It tests a great many aspects of an X server. We at MIT used it constantly to measure our speedups while working on the R4 server.