vmware fusion xserver performance
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Mar 31 20:42:44 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:40 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Hey all,
> Has anyone else using VMWare Fusion (or any vmware) noticed a major change in X
> server performance since beta? I'm seeing very slow window movement, screen
> refresh, menu drawing, etc. Its so slow I find I have to make deliberately slow
> mouse movements to get windows to move to where I want them while dragging.
>
> Before beta I don't have this problem, its much faster. I still have a VM that
> has not been updated since the freeze and the X performance is significantly better.
I'd be curious to know what X server versions are in each, but I have an
idea. I turned offscreen pixmaps off for XAA since they're generally a
performance loss and it happens to work around a rather nasty Render bug
that firefox happens to trigger.
Does life get any better if you say Option "XaaOffscreenPixmaps" ?
- ajax
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