1997-06-03 15:14:37 -04:00
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This utility notably decreases the startup time of your X sessions, provided
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that you start a number of X clients automatically during the X session
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startup.
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Most people, for instance, start X clients like xterm, xclock, xconsole and
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xosview from their .xinitrc, .openwin-init, .xtoolplaces or .xsession file.
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These X clients are started simultaneously (in the background) which puts a
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high load on the X server and the OS:
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* The X server is not multi-threaded, so all X clients are competing to get
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access to the X server and to use its resources, which causes a lot of
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overhead (= delay).
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* The performance of other (non X related) tasks served by the system degrades
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badly due to the high load.
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If the system has not enough RAM to hold all the X clients, it is swapping
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heavily, resulting again in a lot of delay.
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On the Sun platform there is a utility called 'toolwait' which solves these
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problems: it starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped
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a window and then exits.
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Xtoolwait is a free implementation of exactly the same idea.
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1999-08-22 17:35:20 -04:00
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WWW: http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/xtoolwait.html
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