On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:31:04 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My entrance is built on September 11th and I don't have this problem.
Hope this helps you narrow it down. > OK - a quick check today: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 4183 root 15 0 79712 28m 5216 S 0 2.9 0:35.94 Xorg > 9385 raster 15 0 106m 21m 11m S 0 2.1 0:03.04 sylpheed > 4189 root 16 0 65112 13m 3060 S 0 1.3 0:04.72 entrance > 4600 raster 16 0 65112 11m 704 S 0 1.1 0:00.00 entrance > 4601 raster 15 0 70988 9604 3984 S 0 0.9 1:50.63 enlightenm > 4168 root 16 0 41956 1248 860 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 entranced > > ... now yes - i know how top and ps can lie - BUT, i only now JUST noticed - > someone has removed my work of using entrance_login. ie entranced spawns (and > manages) X and entrance (entrance is the gui front end). when you authenticate > - entrance runs the login session. in order to make sure that when your login > ends everything is cleaned up login-wise, entrance_login sits and waits for > the > user's login to end. entrance_login is small - it uses no efl libs. it is > intended to be so small as to use very little ram while you are logged in. > this > seems to have been thrown out the window now with entrance spawning 2 > incarnations of itself and just siting around hogging stale unused memory that > will eventually need to be swapped out - while a user is logged in. > > why was this removed? why suddenly consume about 20MB worth of resident pages > of ram when this is really not needed? just exec() entrance_login so it > replaces the entrance process with a brand new one that has no allocated > memory, fragmented pages etc. if any housekeeping needs to be added - add it > to > entrance_login and pass it in via cmd-line, stdin or something. as it stands > entrance is hogging a huge amount of memory for no useful purpose. entranced > should stick around - and really - it's not fat at all (400k of resident pages > or so). look at the above - enlightenment is leaner than entrance - by < 50% > mem use. and entrance should be doing NOTHING - it should be idle and > consuming > basically no resources as it's only waiting for my login session to end. > > now - this brings me to my point. people need to think about what they are > patching and changing - not just in terms of features, but what they might > break, destroy and then bloat-up. this isn't gnome people. we CARE about > resource usage. if you are going to use ram or cpu - do it for a reason - get > something out of it (functionality, prettiness, etc.) but profile your work - > check its memory usage, check its process spawning - do the processes go away? > so you leave them hanging around consuming precious ram and/or cpu. > > pay attention to the details. details make the difference between a $1 piece > of > plastic imitation junk churned out by a chinese factory and a masterpiece of > craftsmanship. > > i am sorry to have to say this - but i'm disappointed to see lax work like > this. :( > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 裸好多 > Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
