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.
> 
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