performance effects using different DISPLAY variables.

From: Robert Hartley (rhartley++at++ics.com)
Date: 01/11/2002 10:03:31

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Hi,

I just saw this on another developer email list:
> be careful : X connects thru the unix-sockets when no host is

> specified, but thru the network lo0 when localhost is specified.

I guess this means that there is a difference between:
DISPLAY=:0.0
and
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

If we are doing graphics intensive work, I wonder how much of a
performance hit this would cause.

Anyone seen this before?

thanks,

Robbo

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