Thank you everyone for the reply, the consensus was that xlock uses some
pretty intense graphic algorithms for drawing the screens which slow the
machine down, among the solutions suggested were nicing xlock down, calling
it with -delay 30000 etc, but what really worked for me was calling
"xlock -mode blank" which consumes no cpu at all.
Zia.
Original Question
> I have noticed that the xlock utility provided by sun really slows the
> machine down, so when my machine has the xlock on and if some other user
> is running any program on my machine they experience a severe performance
> degradation, the perfmeter shows that the cpu is maxed out (at 100%) while
> the screen lock is on, does any body else have similar experiences ?
> any suggestions on other xlocks out there which may be better in this regard ?
thanks to the following for their replies and the many more which are still
in the mail:
Rich Schultz <rich@ccrwest.org>
seanw@amgen.com (Sean Ward)
cygan@wpm.com (Linda Cygan)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan)
Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell)
johnp@baldric (John Payne)
Dave Hightower <hightowr@afwc.af.mil>
Laurent Sainte-Marthe <smarthe@sansgene.genethon.fr>
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
Chris Needham <needham@dpg.rnb.com>
boenning@igd.fhg.de (Dirk Boenning)
bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
"J. Davis" <jd@lri.stjosephs.london.on.ca>
rob.e.allan@hydro.on.ca (Rob Allan)
"Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
rnclear@sandia.gov (Richard N. Cleary)
met@leis.leis.bellcore.com (met)
asargusi@sbrsim.ed.dreo.dnd.ca (Ayrton Sargusingh)
z055084@uprc.com (Kohler R. P. (Robert)
jjs@library.mt.att.com
fgreco@lehman.com (Frank Greco)
Paul Caskey <pcaskey@swcp.com>
Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
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