Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 20:27:32
Message-Id: 200905031453.29938.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] crazy KDE4 panel by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Sunday 03 May 2009 02:58:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sonntag 03 Mai 2009, Dale wrote:
4 > > > I thought glxgears was a GPU test not a CPU test.
5 > >
6 > > it tests almost nothing from the gpu - and the resulting fps are very
7 > > depent on the CPU.. so...
8 >
9 > The only thing glxgears tests is if OpenGL is working (aka enabled or
10 > disabled).
11 >
12 > Other than that it measures nothing. Even the numbers are suspect.
13 >
14 > It's like calling out to your 5 year old kid "Are you being naughty?" and
15 > they answer "no". You know the kid is in the house, but still have no idea
16 > what they are doing. And their answer is definitely not to be trusted :-)
17
18 well, you know they are alive and still able to talk...