On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:34:25PM +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: > > Finally, with the help of my collegue Rob Bradford, we investigated why > gtk_init took so much more time to run proportional to running on the > desktop. After investigation, we discovered gtk_init was reading lots of > data from /dev/urandom, but we also discovered this didn't happen on the > desktop. Further investigation led us to find this was caused by a > function called gtk_migration_init(). This function does not appear in > GTK+ and is actually added by a patch in OpenEmbedded. I removed the > patch and the resulting start-up time can be seen in the third graph > (3-dialer-without-migration-patch.png). With the patch removed, > gtk_init() accounts for about 12% of the start-up time, as opposed to > 65% previously. > > The gtk-migration patch appears to be an old patch that GPE used to > enable a particular feature they wanted (to allow a panel applet to > migrate windows to different screens). This feature is not required in > OpenMoko, so I would suggest it be removed from the OpenMoko monotone > repository. >
it's removed. thanks for the investigation and thanks for olv for reminding me. - John
