>> 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. Actually I felt quite the opposite; 2.0 was blazingly faster than 1.4, and each version has been faster yet. >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') If you've got crappy 2d video acceleration moving to a "bland" theme does help ALOT. I did this on my old amdK6 box and the improvement was staggering. >> 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 :-) For kicks, can you disable anti-alaising and see what happens? (You can always turn it back on). _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
