Re: Graphics Glitches

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:18:27 -0700


Why are you running that clock on the desktop?

Use your wristwatch instead and you'll get better performence.

Cheers,Angus.

John Auborn wrote:
>
> HELP!
>
> We have a 3pipe, 16 processor Onyx R10000 with IR graphics.
> Unfortunately, no matter what we do, we cannot seem to avoid
> periodic graphics glitches (unable to meet frame rate) even
> with VERY simple scenes.
>
> I cannot even run (as root)
> perfly -C -L -M0 -m6 -N -P1 -r60 esprit.flt
> without missing frames. It seems to miss every second or so. The
> problem isn't there all the time, but if you spin the model and wait
> a minute, you will see this periodic glitch about 1/2 the time.
>
> We have SGI software and hardware support, but the Systems Support Engineer
> and the phone support have not been able to figure out the problem. They
> swapped every board and even sent a new systme disk configured at Mt View.
>
> Any Ideas???
>
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