On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:28:43 -0500 Shawn Haworth <shawn...@gmail.com> said:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:24:26 -0500 Shawn Haworth <shawn...@gmail.com> said: > > > >> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Boris Faure <bo...@fau.re> wrote: > >> > We are pleased to announce the release of Terminology 0.4 > >> > > >> > You can download the tarball either as [1]terminology-0.4.0.tar.gz or as > >> > [2]terminology-0.4.0.tar.bz2. > >> > > >> > This release features: > >> > > >> > * text reflow on resize, > >> > * full 256 colors support, > >> > * improved terminal compatibility, > >> > * improved selection handling, > >> > * backscroll compression to reduce memory usage, > >> > >> > >> What's the compression ratio? How much memory can I expect to be > >> unused compared to 0.3.0? > >> > >> Thanks! > > > > i measured about 60% savings of backscroll memory on average. (si it was 40% > > its original size). > > In the frozen tundra of the Northeast US (New England) I can only max > out my machine at 2GB ram (DDR Pentium 4). Running LXDE + Terminology > w/ 10k scroll buffer + chromium-browser (or bsu when i'm bored) + tmux > + vim = heavy swappage. >:| > I'm thinking about switching my desktop environment to Ratpoison so I > can stay in hard memory. Either that or shit-can Terminology for > lxterminal. chromium is what is really eating all your memory. you can fiddle about at the edges, but that's your real problem. do some memory profiling some time. fyi i have a test machine - pentium-m @ 600mhz, 512m ram. runs e18, terminology etc. just fine. even chromium as long as i keep it to simple stuff and don't use multiple tabs. no gpu either. also one thing that hurts you is using lxde. lxde will have its own libraries/internals, where e re-uses the same efl code that it shares with terminology. scrollbuffers are not that expensive really. it's 8 bytes per char and only the chars on each line until the last non-blank one are actually allocated. so assume 50% on average of every line in scrollback is used, a full 10k scrollback before compression will cost about 3.2m. with compression that comes down to 1.3m also remember if you go back through scrollback terminology has to uncompress as it goes and memory will balloon out again until it gets to re-compressing it again (when it goes idle). that's one terminal. also you may want to use the "multiple instances, one process" option under behavior. it only uses a single terminology process for all terminals. fyi terminology uses fairly little memory on its own - it's mostly efl and other shared libs. if everything is re-using the same ones the cost drops a lot. > Don't get me wrong, I love e17 and Terminology but it's too expensive > for me to run at the moment (wallet + memory wise). I miss the good > ole' days of e16 with gkrellm. My GPU was more expensive than my rig. > (VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900] > (rev a1)) -- woooh doggy. > > Anyway, keep up the fantastic coding. Love you guys and everything > you stand for. > > Shawn > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
