On Thursday, 6 May 2004, Will Cohen wrote: > I work on performance tools at Red Hat. I have been told there is > interest in tuning the desktop to improve performance. I have a > number > of questions to help identify the work needed in this area. I would > be > interested in any answers that people have for the following > questions. > > > What is the set of software in the "Desktop" (executable names > and/or > RPM packages)? > > What specific performance problems have people observed so far in > the > desktop? For example heavy CPU or memory usage by particular > applications. Another example long latency between event and > resulting > action. > > What metrics were used to gauged the effect of software changes on > performance? > > What performance tools have people used so far to identify > performance > problems with desktop applications? > > How well or poorly did the performance tools work in identifying > the > performance problem? > > Were benchmarks used to test performance of desktop applications? > If > so, what type of benchmarks were used (e.g. micro benchmarks or > measuring the amount of time required to do something in an > application program)? > > Were the benchmarks runnable in batch mode without human > assistance? > > > -Will > > > I think that up2date needs an optimization. More info later...
