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Authored by: werikblack on Oct 24, '02 12:59:50PM
The information given is accurate. If you look at top, a lot of times the processor's doing almost nothing, and the bus going to the processor is saturated. Just doing the math, the processor is running at 2x1.25 GHz on the high-end machines, but data is only getting there at 167 MHz. Granted, this is oversimplified and doesn't take into account a number of other factors, but that's a pretty big disparity. To verify window buffer compression, you have to have the developer tools installed.
  • Launch /Developer/Applications/Quartz Debug.
  • Click "Show Window List."
  • View values in the kBytes column. These tell how many K RAM your windows are using
If the value has a "C" appended to the end of it, this means the window buffer is compressed.

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