formatNumber performance

[John Tapsell]

The problem with ksysguard taking ages to show is not a design
problem.  In fact, it was my bug fixing in this very area which was
the reason I became the maintainer for it.

I was planning to produce a report in a few days anyway on the
performance of ksysguard, so please be patient on this issue.

Give me a bit longer please to prove that ksysguard can do the job and
can do the job well.


On 5/16/06, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:40, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > But for that use case, we wouldn't need the separation between ksysguard
> > and ksysguardd (the C daemon that actually collects the data) anyways.
>
> personally i really wonder if ksysguard is trying to solve too many problems
> at once. right now it is:
>
>  - the desktop process table viewer (ctrl+esc)
>  - the system information monitor on the panel
>  - a network monitoring system with multiple graphs and the ability to
> create
> custom views
>
> it's a pretty over-engineered design for the first two and results in the
> process table viewer taking ages to show up when ctrl-esc is pressed.[1]
>
> perhaps a way forward would be to move sysguard to kdeadmin at some point
> and
> call it an "admin tool".
>
> i'd like to split out the Run Command dialog from the desktop into it's own
> app (so that it doesn't go south when the desktop crashes; admittedly this
> shouldn't happen but it does). perhaps a process table viewer window could
> be added to this app[2] to provide what ksysguard currently does for the
> workspace.
>
> thoughts?
>
> [1]  as it is, having a process table that takes 4-5 seconds to show up when
> the system is idle is not overly useful when the system starts to seize up
> because some app is going nuts.
>
> [2]  this would keep these items well insulated and they could even be run
> at
> a higher priority to keep them responsive in times of Bad Things Happening.
> the process table window should also probably be set to show about all over
> windows so it's guaranteed to be visible.
>
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> Aaron J. Seigo
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