On Wednesday 05 May 2004 22:11, Will Cohen wrote:
I work on performance tools at Red Hat. I have been told there is
interest in tuning the desktop to improve performance. I have a number
of questions to help identify the work needed in this area. I would be
interested in any answers that people have for the following questions.
What is the set of software in the "Desktop" (executable names and/or
RPM packages)?
From my point of view rpm -qa | grep kde would give a good starting
list
+ emacs
+ java
+ mozilla (now seems faster than firefox strangely enough)
What specific performance problems have people observed so far in
the
desktop? For example heavy CPU or memory usage by particular
applications. Another example long latency between event and resulting
action.
heavy disk usage kill my machines performance, I work on a laptop with a fast
CPU and plenty of ram.
What metrics were used to gauged the effect of software changes on
performance?
One point I will note is that KDE seems a lot speedier now I've upgraded to
3.2 line.
Dave.
What performance tools have people used so far to identify performance
problems with desktop applications?
How well or poorly did the performance tools work in identifying the
performance problem?
Were benchmarks used to test performance of desktop applications? If
so, what type of benchmarks were used (e.g. micro benchmarks or
measuring the amount of time required to do something in an
application program)?
Were the benchmarks runnable in batch mode without human assistance?
-Will
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