Eugen Minciu wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:31:04 +0900 > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My entrance is built on September 11th and I don't have this problem. > > Hope this helps you narrow it down. > Ok... found it after a few minutes of poking around web-cvs.
Actually, the problem came in with the shell utilization patches... http://e.kevb.net/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/e17/apps/entrance/src/client/entrance_session.c?r1=1.85&r2=1.86&sortby=date Now that I've identified it. It will be fixed soonest. Cheers, Essien >> OK - a quick check today: >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> 4183 root 15 0 79712 28m 5216 S 0 2.9 0:35.94 Xorg >> 9385 raster 15 0 106m 21m 11m S 0 2.1 0:03.04 sylpheed >> 4189 root 16 0 65112 13m 3060 S 0 1.3 0:04.72 entrance >> 4600 raster 16 0 65112 11m 704 S 0 1.1 0:00.00 entrance >> 4601 raster 15 0 70988 9604 3984 S 0 0.9 1:50.63 enlightenm >> 4168 root 16 0 41956 1248 860 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 entranced >> >> ... now yes - i know how top and ps can lie - BUT, i only now JUST noticed - >> someone has removed my work of using entrance_login. ie entranced spawns (and >> manages) X and entrance (entrance is the gui front end). when you >> authenticate >> - entrance runs the login session. in order to make sure that when your login >> ends everything is cleaned up login-wise, entrance_login sits and waits for >> the >> user's login to end. entrance_login is small - it uses no efl libs. it is >> intended to be so small as to use very little ram while you are logged in. >> this >> seems to have been thrown out the window now with entrance spawning 2 >> incarnations of itself and just siting around hogging stale unused memory >> that >> will eventually need to be swapped out - while a user is logged in. >> >> why was this removed? why suddenly consume about 20MB worth of resident pages >> of ram when this is really not needed? just exec() entrance_login so it >> replaces the entrance process with a brand new one that has no allocated >> memory, fragmented pages etc. if any housekeeping needs to be added - add it >> to >> entrance_login and pass it in via cmd-line, stdin or something. as it stands >> entrance is hogging a huge amount of memory for no useful purpose. entranced >> should stick around - and really - it's not fat at all (400k of resident >> pages >> or so). look at the above - enlightenment is leaner than entrance - by < 50% >> mem use. and entrance should be doing NOTHING - it should be idle and >> consuming >> basically no resources as it's only waiting for my login session to end. >> >> now - this brings me to my point. people need to think about what they are >> patching and changing - not just in terms of features, but what they might >> break, destroy and then bloat-up. this isn't gnome people. we CARE about >> resource usage. if you are going to use ram or cpu - do it for a reason - get >> something out of it (functionality, prettiness, etc.) but profile your work - >> check its memory usage, check its process spawning - do the processes go >> away? >> so you leave them hanging around consuming precious ram and/or cpu. >> >> pay attention to the details. details make the difference between a $1 piece >> of >> plastic imitation junk churned out by a chinese factory and a masterpiece of >> craftsmanship. >> >> i am sorry to have to say this - but i'm disappointed to see lax work like >> this. :( >> >> -- >> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- >> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 裸好多 >> Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
