Performance tuning the Fedora Desktop

[Brian Ledbetter]

As many others have pointed out rythymbox uses insane amounts of RAM 
after about one day of use.

On May 6, 2004, at 10:00 AM, fedora-desktop-list-request at redhat.com 
wrote:
>
> From: Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com>
> Date: May 5, 2004 3:11:27 PM MDT
> To: fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Performance tuning the Fedora Desktop
> Reply-To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop 
> <fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
>
>
> I work on performance tools at Red Hat. I have been told there is
> interest in tuning the desktop to improve performance. I have a number
> of questions to help identify the work needed in this area. I would be 
> interested in any answers that people have for the following 
> questions.
>
>
> What is the set of software in the "Desktop" (executable names and/or
> RPM packages)?
>
> What specific performance problems have people observed so far in the
> desktop?  For example heavy CPU or memory usage by particular
> applications. Another example long latency between event and resulting
> action.
>
> What metrics were used to gauged the effect of software changes on
> performance?
>
> What performance tools have people used so far to identify performance
> problems with desktop applications?
>
> How well or poorly did the performance tools work in identifying the
> performance problem?
>
> Were benchmarks used to test performance of desktop applications? If
> so, what type of benchmarks were used (e.g. micro benchmarks or
> measuring the amount of time required to do something in an
> application program)?
>
> Were the benchmarks runnable in batch mode without human assistance?
>
>
> -Will
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