On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:15:46 -0500 (EST) "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I am wondering whether there are any tools specifically designed to > assist in investigating performance problems related to parts of > GNOME? I only know of the standard ones - top etc. > We're attempting to move users from an OpenWindows olvwm environment > to a Sun GNOME metacity environment. One of the consistent complaints > is how slow the desktop is. I think, unfortunately, that's just the way it is. gnome 2.4 seems to be designed to look pretty rather than be fast. I'm hoping this will be addressed in 2.6. While the performance is good on my desktop (AMD 2800+, 1Gb ram, so it should be!), it was unacceptable on my laptop (750MHz pentium II, 256Mb ram), so I ended up switching back to fvwm for my desktop and just using the gnome clients. In a linux enviroment prelink makes things faster, and I've heard good things about the 2.6.x kernel, but of course that won't help you in a Sun environment. You could try picking a 'fast' theme - one that minimises eye candy and thus the cpu cycles needed to redraw the screen when you change desktops. You could also try getting rid of any applets that you can't live without. You could try changing metacity to sawfish (I don't know if it's any faster, but IMO it's more 'non-newbie-friendly') > > Even after setting the them down to something like Esco, the time > it takes to move from one workspace to another for instance is a > constant source of complaint. Are these newish sun boxes with a sun supplied gnome on them? Then complain bitterly to your supplier. If not (and this probably won't help you much), I remember building gnome 1.x (the release just before 2.0) under solaris 2.6 from the tarballs. This was ~4 years ago on whatever the midrange workstation was then. From what I remember it took forever to build, but once installed it was every bit as fast as CDE. But that was before it was made user friendly :-) Regards, Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Rouch crouch@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
