[ug-bosug] Slow JDS vs Other Desktops (was : When do you want the next Bosug meet ?)

[Sanjeev Bagewadi]

Thanks Shiv !

I think I was wrong. This seems to be the standard Gnome Desktop issue 
as you mentioned.

-- Sanjeev.

G N S wrote:

> Hi Sanjeev
>
> On 3/15/07, *Sanjeev Bagewadi* <Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com 
> <mailto:Sanjeev.Bagewadi at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Shiv,
>
>     Regarding the SDX being slow... can you please check if dtlogin is one
>     of the processes
>     hogging CPU ? We saw this on another machine the other day. FOund that
>     it was busy doing
>     lstat() on removable media in a loop.
>
>     Regards,
>     Sanjeev.
>
>
>
> I think in mycase it is the memory that is the problem and not cpu. 
> The idle time with both JDS and IceWM is >90% but the memory consumed 
> in the two cases is very different.
> Incase of JDS, all the top memory hogging processes are desktop 
> related - gnome-applets,services eating up chunks of memory(rss) but 
> taking ~0 CPU. Incase of Icewm apart from the window manager ALL the 
> top mem using processes seemed to be required ones for the system.
> Even for those user applications that are common, the total size as 
> well as the resident set for each process is higher incase of JDS as 
> compared to IceWM.
> For ex: Xorg with same set of applications open and operations being 
> done, in JDS is 401M/34M while in Icewm is 270M/20M.
>
> Memory on my laptop is on the lesser side(256M) and the above 
> situation leads to too many page faults. Even with high swap, the rss 
> of unnecessary processes ensures breathing space for applications is low.
> (Upgrading the memory has been on my cards for sometime, haven't 
> pushed myself to do it.)
>
> Isn't SDX CDE specific? If it refers to the wrapper around GNome for 
> JDS, it is probably not at fault. It is GNome itself. It might be 
> possible to disable some of these applets/processes that are there by 
> default. During the earlier days on my ubuntu (gnome) desktop I had 
> found these tweaks to yield only marginal relief hence I haven't 
> bothered further.
>
> regards
> Shiv
>
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