On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 22:11, 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 Here is a quick list of apps that seem to take too long to start for me: openoffice.org gedit gnome-terminal gnome-background-properties And, from time to time, clicking on the main menu takes ages to display the menu (where ages really mean up to 10 seconds) Hope this helps a little... -- Julien Olivier <julo@xxxxxxxxxx>
