[comp.windows.x] When is X server idle on Sun?

scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) (11/09/88)

In article <3330@emory.uucp> km@emory.uucp (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>1) The server seems to log a lot of cpu time even when there is no
>input or display activity. It looks like it must be in a sleep/poll
>loop, rather than depending entirely on select.  Is this unusual for X
>servers?

I noticed this on the R2 Sun server when built with -DSUNWINDOWS.
Without sunwindows support, the server stopped consuming cycles.
I didn't study it any farther than this.

-scott