Re: Gnome first-time login profiling report.

[Narayana Pattipati <narayana pattipati wipro com>]

Hi,

Please find attached the first-time login timings splitup for Linux.
Earlier I had sent the timings report for Solaris.

Also you can have a look at the truss outputs for Linux as well as
Solaris at the following links:

                http://www.gnome.org/~michael/solaris-login-truss.txt
                http://www.gnome.org/~michael/linux-login-truss.txt

Regards,
Narayana.

Narayana Pattipati wrote:
> 
> Hi Malcolm,
> 
> As Michael said, the ratios are similar for both linux and solaris.
> Infact, I have results for linux also and I can send them if you want to
> have a look at them.
> 
> Regards,
> Narayana.
> 
> Michael Meeks wrote:
> >
> > Hi Malcolm,
> 
> > > Is it possible to put up a tarball of the patches you made (or just a
> > > description) where you added debugging output? I would like to run
> > > similar tests on some Linux systems to see if the ratios are about the
> > > same.
> >
> >         I think for a Linux system - they are fairly similar, yes. Some things
> > are significantly worse for Solaris systems such as X font queries - but
> > in the main, optimising on the basis of the Solaris trace will also
> > yield siginificant gains on Linux.