Luke,
From the statistics you provided, GNOME(G) and KDE(K) have mix results: 1. Real-time G is slightly quicker than K. 2. User-time G is almost 50 percent quicker than K. 3. System-time G is almost twice slower than K.
It appears that K loads quicker but G runs faster.
Calculations below:
Item LukeS PeterR CompNos. LukeGNOME LukeKDE GNOME/KDE
(1) (2) (3) (3)/(2) (4) (5) (4)/(5)
CPU-Speed MHZ 2658 450 0.17 2658 2658 1.00
Mem MB 512 517 0.99 512 512 1.00
Real-Time sec 0.577 2.564 4.44 0.394 0.433 0.91
User-Time 0.031 0.172 5.54 0.020 0.030 0.67
Sys-Time 0.026 0.190 7.31 0.029 0.015 1.93
Luke Skywalker wrote:
Ok, here we go to be fair, i rebooted the system for the Gnome test and then rebooted into KDE for a fresh start too
Gnome:
First instance on a fresh system then closed firefox $ time firefox No running windows found real 0m10.639s user 0m1.909s sys 0m0.144s
Second start, this time i guess some stuff was cached $ time firefox No running windows found real 0m2.334s user 0m1.821s sys 0m0.129s
Second instance of firefox (from second start) $ time firefox
real 0m0.394s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.029s
KDE:
First instance on a fresh system then closed firefox $ time firefox No running windows found real 0m11.911s user 0m1.915s sys 0m0.199s
Second start $ time firefox No running windows found real 0m2.452s user 0m1.878s sys 0m0.126s
Second instance of firefox (from second start) $ time firefox
real 0m0.433s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s
so it seems that Gnome may be quicker...
but then again...to give KDE the benefit of the doubt. Gnome basically is a fresh install never played with...I use kde constantly, so it has my window decrations, my desktop, my themes, my apps running etc...so i guess there is more stuff going on in my kde than a fresh kde install.
And i dont know if fixing whatever i did to the graphics would make both a little quicker as well
Luke
O Plameras wrote:
Luke Skywalker wrote:
Well if you want to do any tests...name them, and ill run them.
I understand you ran firefox on KDE to get your results.
Are you able to run firefox on GNOME to get similar statistics ?
Do not change anything else, please, just the desktop.
Thanks.
O Plameras
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