re xlock in article qvir idi lll winken llnl gov dale wente llnl gov dale m slone writes dale i found an oddity with our sgi indigo mips r chip dale when xlock nolock is running and i am working remotely dale or in batch at mode the runtime of my programs as timed dale by using clock in the code itself is slower than if dale xlock is not running no other processes seem to affect my dale runtimes yet this is very consistent unless you run xlock mode blank xlock consumes cpu time generating the nice animated display the code you are running is competing with xlock for the cpu if you run top via a remote login you can really see what is going on scott henry scotth sgi com help my disclaimer is missing networking services gigo really means garbage in gospel out silicon graphics inc
