Re: Scrolling performance

["John Cupitt" <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 6/21/06, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy gmail com> wrote:
> You were right, novell installed by default a gtk-qt-engine package,
> that was also the reason why I was not able to get rid of "this one
> and only theme". Now I am using the default theme and its _way_
> better, I see about twice as much refreshed when moving gftp's
> vertical splitter, the horizontal are still very slow.
> gtk-demo still shows a much higher expose-lag than even konqueror
> which its much more complex (and skinned) default interface.

Good, glad that helped. There are fast and attractive gtk2 themes as
well: I use clearlooks myself.

For what it's worth, if I maximise gftp and wiggle the vertical
splitter I see rather similar numbers to you. I have an nvidia 6200
with driver 1.0-8762 and gtk2.8.18.

  379387 69.5894 Xorg
       CPU_CLK_UNHALT...|
         samples|      %|
       ------------------
          143932 37.9380 libfb.so
          101881 26.8541 no-vmlinux
           98804 26.0431 anon (tgid:4610 range:0x82c000-0x922000)
           26745  7.0495 Xorg
            6181  1.6292 libc-2.3.6.so
            1685  0.4441 libextmod.so
             116  0.0306 mouse_drv.so
              42  0.0111 libramdac.so
               1 2.6e-04 libm-2.3.6.so
  125293 22.9820 gftp-gtk
       CPU_CLK_UNHALT...|
         samples|      %|
       ------------------
           20136 16.0711 libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.1201.2
           16493 13.1635 libcairo.so.2.2.4
           15452 12.3327 libgobject-2.0.so.0.1000.3
           13860 11.0621 libpango-1.0.so.0.1201.2
           12485  9.9646 libc-2.3.6.so
           12299  9.8162 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.800.18
           11823  9.4363 libglib-2.0.so.0.1000.3
            4191  3.3450 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.800.18
            4190  3.3442 libX11.so.6.2.0
            2946  2.3513 libpthread-2.3.6.so
            2517  2.0089 no-vmlinux
            2171  1.7327 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1201.2
            2087  1.6657 libXrender.so.1.3.0
            1887  1.5061 libm-2.3.6.so
            1084  0.8652 libfreetype.so.6.3.8
             956  0.7630 libclearlooks.so
             352  0.2809 pango-basic-fc.so
             323  0.2578 libgthread-2.0.so.0.1000.3
              30  0.0239 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.800.18
               8  0.0064 ld-2.3.6.so
               3  0.0024 gftp-gtk

John