Re: Performance ideas (resend) ...

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 03 mars 2009, à 09:35 +0000, Michael Meeks a écrit :
> === Un-necessary gconf key thrash ===
> 
> 	Sure; so - gconf at least is a tad of a pain. I posted a trace here
> last week or so - that pointed out the worst offenders wrt. round-trips,
> and performance: NetworkManager stuck out like a sore thumb, I forget
> the other main problem children ;-) Though Vuntz has since made a nice
> patch for the panel to reduce some set_schema traffic. The next
> outstanding offender is:

Does my patch actually help? Because, well, I didn't commit it yet ;-)

[...]

> === gnome-session / b-a-s foo ===
> 
> 	Another thing that interested me, looking at the strace of login - was
> that gnome-session execve's dbus-launch which execve's gnome-session :
> which seems a little sub-optimal.

That would be at least partly a distro-specific issue. Some distro
directly call dbus-launch gnome-session from the X scripts. That's not
the case in openSUSE, iirc.

Vincent

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