XServer memory usage: xrestop

[Lubos Lunak]

Dne po 29. prosince 2003 15:34 Rolf Magnus napsal(a):
> On Monday 29 December 2003 12:38, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > KDE apps in general seem to use a lot of graphic contexts and a lot of
> > "wins". Is this a actually a problem ?
> > If yes, how can this be improved ? Or is it all deep inside Qt ?
> > konqy uses some of pixmap memory, xmms uses much more, OOo writer seems
> > to use less. I guess the pixmap memory s used for the icons ?
>
> I am wondering how much memory could be saved by loading common icons and
> style pixmaps not in every process, but rather in a pixmap server and then
> transferring the pixmap id to the programs that need them. The actual
> pixmap would be needed only once in the pixmap server, and not in every
> program. I think someone (Waldo?) already tried doing that, but for
> improving startup speed by saving all the icon loading, but I think it was
> too slow in the end due to IPC or something.

 It was me. And it wasn't slow, in fact IIRC it was a bit faster that what we 
have now with on-demand icon loading. The problem with it was that it was too 
... scary. And when I in the end got the simple and elegant idea of on-demand  
loading in QIconSet, which solved a good portion of what the iconserver was 
trying to solve, it didn't seem worth the trouble anymore. I don't remember 
the numbers anymore, but I think currently the iconserver would bring at most 
5% improvement. I should still have the sources somewhere, I could have a 
look again after 3.2.

>
> > Anything else ?
> > (styles, images in html pages, ...)
>
> Some widgets are double buffered to reduce flicker. That buffer is in a
> pixmap, too.

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 Lubos Lunak
 KDE Developer