Rawhide performance?

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Fri Feb 3 16:15:50 UTC 2006


Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>> Dax Kelson wrote:
>>
>>> I installed rawhide on a beefy desktop computer.
>>>
>>> AMD FX-55 CPU
>>> 2GB RAM
>>> 300GB SATA RAID1 (testing out the new dmraid integration)
>>> Nvidia 6800GT 256MB video (Qty 2 -- SLI)
>>> 1600x1200 resolution
>>>
>>> I haven't quantified it yet, but desktop GNOME performance seems very
>>> sluggish. Many seconds to launch apps. Many seconds for the GNOME panel
>>> menu to drop down and populate with icons. In general the lack of
>>> performance is bad enough to be very noticeable and annoying.
>>
>> One trick which improved performance from what you describe to ok for 
>> me, was rerunning fc-cache - I had a directory of fonts in my home 
>> directory, and it seemed to parse them every time something started.
> 
> At some point in FC5 development, a fontconfig update seems to have
> been rather buggy, and caused performance problems also.  I don't
> know the details, but the package maintainer and others have alluded
> to this, and runtime behaviour was certainly suggestive of it as well.

I recompiled the xorg-x11-server package with this patch a couple of 
minutes ago:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320#c11

The performance increase on the desktop this bug delivers is quite dramatic.

Regards,
   Dennis




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