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Subject: Re: [9front] Question re: RPI video performance
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Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> you are sure it is video performance that is slow and not something els=
e?

In fact, I'm not sure at all.

OTOH, I'm aware that screen updates can become very slow when the
system is under load, but that's understandable.  If I load a page in
mothra, say, the mouse becomes much less responsive until the page is
fully loaded.  But the slow screen updates also happen when the system
is idle (I mostly only do text editing).

> try cat /sys/lib/words (rusty memory, probably the wrong path).
>=20
> you could also try the trusty catclock.

I'm not sure I understand your test; you're proposing to run programs
that don't do much other than updating the screen; if they run fast,
the video performance is good enough and the slowness I'm observing is
due to something else.  Is that right?

Catclock runs smoothly, but admittedly only updates a small part of
the screen.  Cat'ing a large file (in a window with scroll enabled) is
indeed slow.  Unhiding a rio window is slow to redraw, even if it's
just a window running rc where I previosly cat'ed a file.

> i have never used 9front on the pi but miller=E2=80=99s distro was fine=
, and the video driver is probably the same=E2=80=A6

I'd try that for comparison but I'm not sure I have a spare sd card,
I'll check.