On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:40:56 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Just so we have some figures to get a handle on this, I did some timing > tests on the e17 I got from cvs this morning. > > This is on my Athlon XP 3000+ with Barton Core, ASUS A7V333 MoBo, 512 MB > DDR 333 KingMax RAM, UltraDMA PATA controller and matching hard drives, > and nVidia GeForce4 MX 440. While I have swap space, none of it was > ever used. > > The kernel is the standard SuSE 9.3 kernel with all SuSE supplied > security updates - 2.6.11.4-21.9 (I updated SuSE just before updating > e17). The X is xorg 6.8.2-30, once again standard SuSE 9.3 issue fully > patched. The display manager is entranced as per this mornings cvs, > with default theme. Some e17 modules where loaded, some where unloaded, > default theme is used, but I changed the background to blue-eyed-trees. > The timing is started from the end of the fade of the default entranced > theme after logging on. > > Several timings in a row for each case where performed, with the best > one listed below, but there was little variation anyway. I added some > extra eaps on the number I reported in an earlier email for the lots > eaps test. I did this by using e17genmenu to convert EVERY .desktop > file on my system, not all of them are apps. > > With 38 eaps, enlightenment takes 2 seconds to start up. > > With 2129 eaps, enlightenment takes 20 seconds to start up. that's atrocious! i'm ashamed to have written such bad code! shame on me! shame!. fix fix fix.... > Default SuSE setup of KDE 50 seconds. > > Default SuSE setup of GNOME 25 seconds. > > Failsafe xterm 1 second. > > So, 2000 eaps makes e17 almost as slow as GNOME. > > There are other window managers installed, they are usually between > e17's fastest time and GNOME's fastest time. Gdm (GNOMES display > manager) starts xterm as fast as entranced starts enlightenment, while > kdm (from KDE) is slower still. I didn't test xdm and wdm, both of > which come with SuSE. > > Since Rasterman showed some interest, in fact he laid down a challenge, > and while I was in a testing mood, I booted this same machine from a CD > copy of My Linux. The DVD drive used for booting is attached to the > other IDE controller, which is only UltraDMA 66. From kernel start to > usable state took 12 seconds. A lot of that time is due to the IDE > hardware or kernel modules just sitting there doing nothing. Some more > was soaked up by lots of NIC kernel modules trying to determine what > NICS I actually have, something I could probably move to the background > post processing. SuSE time to get to a similar state (single user mode, > no services started) was 70 seconds. you can probably get a bit by using an initrd ramdisk to do a lot of the boot from - load ide moduels in parallel while doing other things then mount root and continue. :) > I got a meeting to get to, catch up with you later. > > -- > Stuff I have no control over could be added after this line. > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
