On Fri, 21 May 2004, Colin Walters wrote:This was discussed earlier in the thread "Performance tuning the Fedora Desktop". I think Warren had the real explanation, though I'm certain there could be others.
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:30, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
Hi, I installed Fedora Core 2 on an Athlon 750 with 512MB ram with an Nvidia Vanta II pci video card.
After a fresh boot, I timed the following a) startup of Mozilla from the panel till Release notes was rendered b) startup of gnome-terminal from Fedora Menu->System Tools->Terminal till bash prompt
The timings for a) and b) on 'cold-start' were 10 and 13 seconds respectively. On a 'warm cache' (ie) start Mozilla/shutdown/start again the timings were 3 and 11 seconds respectively.
My expecation is that gnome-terminal is simpler/smaller than Mozilla and as such should startup much faster
My suspicion is that you have something crazy in your shell init files (e.g. ~/.bashrc).
...or there's something wrong with DNS - all Gnome (and KDE for that matter) applications take AGES to start if DNS is failing.
- Panu -
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In FC2 things have changed for the worse for gnome-terminal performance, where it has become far worse than both konsole and xterm. A GNOME developer explained to me that was the trade-off necessary in making gnome-terminal able to display unicode characters with pango. I do admit it is nice to have that ability, and it is awesome to see CJK characters working in gnome-terminal, but at the same time I wish it were faster.
Very often I am forced to minimize my gnome-terminal sessions in order to prevent 100% CPU usage while using remote ssh sessions or building something locally. The bottleneck is always my terminal CPU usage. =(
Warren Togami -----------
