USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX Annual Conference, Freenix Session

USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX Annual Conference, Freenix Session - June 2000

Efficiently Scheduling X Clients

Keith Packard, SuSE Inc.

Abstract

The X server is charged with providing window system services to many applications simultaneously, and needs a scheduling mechanism to distribute it's limited resources among these applications. The original scheduling mechanism was simplistic and caused graphics-intensive applications to starve interactive applications.

A new scheduling mechanism has been designed which fairly distributes time among the requesting applications while at the same time increasing performance by a small amount. Descriptions of the original and new scheduling mechanism and empirical measurements demonstrating the effects of scheduling within the X server are included along with a discussion on how the design was arrived at.

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