2007/11/30, Benjamin Gramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > About three months ago, Vincent proposed changes to the gnome-panel that > would remove the bonobo usage and switch to d-bus, as well as create a > new library/compatibility layer to handle applets [1]. It seems that > this high memory consumption is a reality (I often have close to 500MB > consumed at any given time, and that's sans compositor). Is it possible > that when the panel is re-written we could address these concerns and > make the panel and applets more nimble? > > benjamin gramlich
Very interesting. And about all those libraries.. i don't know exactly how windows is doing it but isn't windows caching all there libraries? or just the ones that are used mostly? whichever one it is.. i think fedora (and linux in general) should cache all libraries that are most used. (caching all might be a little big). And yes a algorithm has to made for it and probably even a upstream kernel patch to do it in the kernel ?... and just a good caching mechanism that lies in the kernel and is smart (meaning it will detect what you used and cache the most used files during boot time) is something that i really miss in Linux in general.. programs are relatively slow under linux now while they can be a lot faster with smart caching (no readahead or preload at least not in there current shape)... just my thoughts. Than small sized applets (like the nm-applet and the volume control shouldn't take more than 500 KB in the memory and still be a lot faster than they are now. And about this question: "Did anyone notice, that Fedora 8 Gnome startup takes roughly two times longer than Fedora 6 one?" well.. i did notice that it was taking (a lot) longer than in earlier Fedora versions and other distributions not Fedora 6 in particular. It's all a mather of time, money, patience and programming skills.... and i can't do it (yet) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
