Re: gconf keys read at login ...

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Michael Meeks schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> 	I've been digging at the gconf performance issues on login, and it
> seems (to me) that the most promising approach here is to store the keys
> that we read (and the schema/defaults for them) in a smaller, separate
> store that we read before the gconf.xml.defaults.

Thanks for doing that. I've been following your blog postings. Are there patches
for the other things you found (whitespace, utf-8 handling)?

Stefan

> 
> 	So - I turned on CORBA logging and grokked at what we're doing with
> gconf on login ;-) cue groans and gasps of horror etc.
> 
> 	I attach the compressed log (of a session startup), and a perl script
> to parse it. Some highlights:
> 
> 	* we read -all- the thumbnailer keys, individually, twice.
> 		+ [ who / why ! ? ;-]
> 	* network-manager is a disaster - I've poked Tambet separately
> 	* gnome-power-manager needs to do a recursive directory load
> 	* metacity ditto - for the global keybindings - 170 round trips
> 	  from metacity
> 	* nautilus - desktop and icon_view dirs need a preload
> 	* /desktop/gnome/accessibility likewise
> 
> 	Anyhow - I hope the data is useful to speed up a few clients; now to
> try to use it to sub-set the schema data :-)
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> 
> 
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