[PATCH] dix: Provide means to determine server startup time easily.

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Aug 17 12:00:01 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:54 -0700, jamey at minilop.net wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:40 +0300, Rami Ylimäki wrote:
> >> It is useful to provide a way to determine server initialization time
> >> for testers. For example, this patch makes it easy for testers to
> >> verify that the recent xkbcomp modifications have a positive effect on
> >> server startup time on boot.
> >
> > Really?  I just use 'time X -pogo'.
> 
> You'll forgive the rest of us, I hope, for failing to notice an option
> you added in 2007 without documentation and with a clever, non-obvious
> name. :-)

You mean people don't look at the source for command line options?  My
world is shattered.

(Obviously the metaphor is that you're making the server bounce up and
down.  I _may_ have been listening to Toxicity that day.)

- ajax
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