Re: Fwd: [Xpert]New extension for keeping track of client resources
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys), Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich nvidia com>
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Fwd: [Xpert]New extension for keeping track of client resources
- Date: 06 Mar 2002 22:09:30 -0500
jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys) writes:
> For those of you willing to build out of XFree86's CVS, a new tool
> that will get you resource usage out of the X server. We should have
> done this in 1988. Sigh...
This is great!
If any X hackers are taking feature requests, it'd be great to get the
IDs of each resource. If we could get the Window/Pixmap IDs,
we could for example:
a) find out how large the pixmaps are and display total
pixels used by each client
b) map from Window->PID using the _NET_WM_PID hint, and display X
resource usage for processes in gnome-system-monitor right next to
CPU/mem usage
Or maybe this info is already available, I didn't see it in the
example though.
Another nice thing to be able to request for the system monitor would
be a simple count of total server-side memory that should be charged
to the client (would not need to be super-precise, just include the
"large pieces" of each resource, such as the pixel data).
The great thing for X here is that if we get the info in the system
monitor, people will stop blaming X for bloat that belongs to
clients. ;-)
Havoc
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