Hi Owen, On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 15:45, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 05:21, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > To give you an idea of where a GNOME application starting up spends its > > time see this: > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-April/msg00360.html > > > > The only things really specific to the panel in this is the loading of > > main menu and applets/launchers. > > I believe this is 'strace -tt' measurement? My experience is that that > can be quite distorting because it greatly magnifies the per-syscall > overhead. Yeah, you mentioned :/ I only thought it would be of interest to Will as "here's the types of things GNOME apps are doing on startup" rather than "here's how a GNOME apps startup time is split". I'd really love a way of doing this kind of a wall-clock breakdown of application startup time *without* such distortion ... Cheers, Mark.
