Parallel Startup for KDE.

[Josef Weidendorfer]

Am Dienstag, 30. September 2003 13:52 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
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> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 13:36, Stefan Heimers wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > >  Perhaps on multi-CPU systems, but in general no - the same amount of
> > > work needs to be done, and it doesn't matter much in how many threads.
> > > But there's also a difference between KDE startup and system startup.
> > > During system startup, many of the started services wait for hardware
> > > to initialize, connect to remote systems, and similar things that make
> > > them wait while doing nothing. Starting more services in parallel helps
> > > there. But with KDE the CPU should be fully used all the time.
> >
> > What about loading files? KDE loads a huge number of separate config
> > files, each needing disk seek time or slow NFS-links. It's quite possible
> > that even a single CPU is idle from time to time.
>
> It would be nice to have a high-resolution graph (e.g. a 20m sample
> interval) of the state of the various processes during startup to get an
> idea what is happening.

Does anybody have experience with OProfile? It should do this kind of 
systemwide monitoring, using time based (e.g. 20ms period) sampling.
For me, it always crashes my machine :-(

Josef

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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