Re: Has The performance been forgotten?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 06:29 -0700, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
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You seem to be using GNOME 2.2.  Try the latest release (2.8);
performance improvements are made with each release.

Also, you might consider that it isn't GNOME that's causing certain
slowdowns.  You have an NVIDIA card - are you using the latest NVIDIA
binary drivers?  The Free 'nv' XFree86/Xorg driver is slow as fashoozie.
(No, I don't know what that is either, but I'm going to assume it's very
slow.)

Other things like the compiler used, compiler options used, file system,
kernel, and so on can all have a huge impact on performance.  RH9 is
probably not the fastest distro around at all - old compiler, fairly old
kernel, you're probably using a slower file system (ext2?  ext3?), etc.
You might try installing and running GNOME 2.8 on your SUSE 9.1 machine
and compare it with GNOME 2.8 on your RH9 machine.

Also, if you want to actually *help* with the performance issues you
find, you should check out the newly forming performance project in
GNOME.  Measures like the ones you list aren't at all useful; profiling
the code and finding the specific parts of the apps that are slowing
things down *does* help, as it helps developers (and possibly yourself,
if you code) fix the performance problems.  There definitely are a lot
of areas GNOME could be made much, much faster, but the developers need
to know which code in specific needs fixing, and they could probably use
help doing the actual fixing, as time and resources are limited.

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> I don't know how much effect it can have, I don't know how many times it has been commented, I don't know what can I do for an improvement, But I know... Working with a computer is not enjoyable when it responds slow! ___________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | TIMES TO RUN | | | | | | | IN | SuSE | RedHat | Windows | Windows | | | SECONDS | 9.1 | 9.0 | XP(SP1) | 98(se) | | | | | | | | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| ___________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | boot before | | | | | | | login | | | | | | | | 62 | 54 | 22 | 20 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | boot after | (KDE 3.2) |(Gnome 2.2)| | | | | login | | | | | | | | 80 | 17 | 9 | 9 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | |(Konqueror)|(Nautilus) |(Explorer) |(Explorer) | | | file browser | | | | | | | | 2 | 1 | 1 | < 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | multi media |(Kaffeine) | |(M-Player) |(M-Player) | | | player | | n/a | | | | | | 12 | | 1 | 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | control | | | | | | | center/ | | | | | | | panel | 15 | 4 | 1 | < 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | | (YaST) | |(Computer | | | | management | | n/a |Management)| n/a | | | | 15 | | 2 | | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | add/remove | | | | | | | components | | | | | | | | 45 | 15 | 6 | 4 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | find file | | | | | | | | 12 | 1 | 1 | < 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | command | (Konsole) |(Terminal) |(DosPrompt)|(DosPrompt)| | | prompt | | | | | | | | 7 | 2 | 1 | < 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | | (Kwrite) | (Gedit) | (WordPad) | (WordPad) | | | text editor | | | | | | | | 15 | 3 | 1 | < 1 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | total | | | | | | | | 265 | > 97 | 45 | > 36 | | |_______________|___________|___________|___________|___________|___________| Also note: - I am shouting not because I hate linux, but because I hate negligences hurled at it so far! - I know many people will suggest me to have a fast xxxx MHz CPU: No, I suggest programmers to test their programs on an xxx MHz CPU to see what they have created! These are my computer specifications (I am not kidding): Ultra high speed CPU: AMD K6-2+ at 550 MHz, Extra high end GPU: nVIDIA RivaTNT 16MB PCI, Super high speed SDRAM: 512MB PC133, Seagate 120GB 7200rpm + Western Digital 120GB 8MB buffer Windows98-SE + WindowsXP-SP1a + RedHat-Linux-9.0 + Suse-Linux-9.1 (Already, I am using Mozilla browser 1.7.3 on Linux) Other system properties: Professional sound: Creative SB16 ISA, High bandwidth modem: Rockwell 33.6 ISA, High quality big monitor: 14" color monitor ----------------------------------- Have fun! Bahram Alinezhad (alineziad yahoo com), 9/26/2004, Tehran, Iran.
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