On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:32 -0700, David L wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Kevin DeKorte wrote: > > On 06/02/2009 03:37 PM, David L wrote: > >> My f11 system seems extremely slow when running > >> some 2D gtk/cairo apps. Is there a benchmark > >> suite that is yum installable for testing X performance? > <snip> > >> > > > > Personally I find that gtkperf is useful although not an exact science. > > I like to run it with the following options > > > > gtkperf -c 500 -a > > > Thanks Kevin, > > That helped confirm my suspicions. Here's my output with > the intel driver on my Intel 82865G: [snip various results] > GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 44.60 > GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 15.80 [snip] > Same computer using the vesa driver: > GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Tue Jun 2 15:19:09 2009 [snip] >GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 1.43 > GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 1.31 [snip] Looks like the circles/text tests are the most obvious differences, though most tests show marked differences. > I was running at a higher resolution using the intel driver, > but it's nearly 10x slower. Is this expected from this You may want to try "sysprof"; it's an excellent tool for figuring out where slowdowns are occurring across the whole system (e.g. of the combined gtk app/X server system, as in this case). See: http://live.gnome.org/Sysprof > driver? Until very recently it was hanging my system, > so maybe it's still not mature? (I have no idea about this) Hope this is helpful Dave -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
