Re: [Dri-devel] Quick poll: Utah-GLX-like "HW boxes"

[Andreas E. <eh...@ly...>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:04:31AM +1100, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> Anyone interested in performance monitoring boxes like Utah-GLX has? 
> I'm running around in Q3DM9 (a killer test of available texture memory)
> seeing my framerate drom from ~60 to 15 at 32bpp.  I added a quick
> green-box test to the r128 driver a while back, but having some visual
> performance monitoring information can be quite handy.
> 
> If there's a general interest, I might spend a bit of time and add the
> code to the various drivers.

Something which would be pretty nifty would be to show the load of the
graphics card. I think quite a lot of users would be interested in
knowing wether it is the CPU or the graphics card that is the bottleneck.
Having a bar graph from 0 to 100% card utilization would be nice.
It would also be nifty to show graphically how much time is spent waiting
for the graphics engine to go idle if the card is always busy.

/AE