Profiling the X Protocol
John Danskin and
Pat Hanrahan.
Abstract
This paper describes a system for tracing the X Window System Protocol. We
have analyzed these traces by breaking the protocol down into discrete
instructions or messages, and analyzing the frequency and network resource
requirements of these messages. This analysis has resulted in preliminary
results in 4 areas: the relative importance of X messages, how X usage changes
during different application stages differing application idioms for
accomplishing similar tasks, and the size distributions of X messages and groups
of X messages. Some of these results have architectural implications for
network protocols and implementations.
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