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

Rami Ylimäki rami.ylimaki at vincit.fi
Wed Aug 18 01:10:13 PDT 2010


  On 08/17/2010 10:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the tip, the option seems to be very useful.

-- Rami



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