Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-27 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
2008/9/25 Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We can file bugs on these issues prior to pushing composite into a build. Please file a ticket and add the tag 'composite', and describe the test setup. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:27:59PM +0100, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Just to follow-up with trying

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-27 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
Ok, after more than one hour of exclusively using the XO with composition, the system froze when I clicked on the Freedom Fry picture at fsf.org. I had running: 1 Terminal, 1 XoIRC, 1 Log, 1 Browse, 1 Write, 1 text clipping in the clipboard Eduardo 2008/9/27 Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-25 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd vote for activating composition ASAP once we have a 9.1 joyride branch and see how we can find the sweetest spot between speed and memory

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I think we should first try to debug our graphic performance and see what is slow and if we can do anything about it. Sure, that's the right fix. AFAIK, XComposite wasn't invented to make slow graphics faster.

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-25 Thread Erik Garrison
We can file bugs on these issues prior to pushing composite into a build. Please file a ticket and add the tag 'composite', and describe the test setup. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:27:59PM +0100, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: Just to follow-up with trying it, while at first the feeling of using

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, just tried Erik's instructions for using xcompmgr, and it's amazing how swift

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, just tried Erik's instructions for using xcompmgr, and it's amazing how swift

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:43:02AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: FWIW, sometime back, I did some benchmarks with a composite enabled Metacity - results at http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar@lists.laptop.org/msg03613.html Jim had suggested some memory saving tricks at

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:43:02AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: FWIW, sometime back, I did some benchmarks with a composite enabled Metacity - results at

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernie has talked about some wm hints that can be set on windows so they get unredirected and thus their offscreen pixmaps released. Not sure if matchbox would support them, though. Related with all this is the decision to

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd vote for activating composition ASAP once we have a 9.1 joyride branch and see how we can find the sweetest spot between speed and memory usage. I agree. There also may be bugs which we need to shake out. If this

Re: [sugar] composite memory usage [was Re: frame auto-visibility configuration]

2008-09-24 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
Just to follow-up with trying it, while at first the feeling of using composition was of a more responsive system, I did see performance degrade as I launched more activities and used it more. The saving grace was that there never was any ugly visual redraws (other than when a new activity is