On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:01 -0500, Dave Richards wrote: > Our most common device is an NCD Explora 451, circa 1996. Up to GTK > 2.6 they have worked fine. They obviously aren't as fast as new > devices, but work well for the GNOME desktop, Evolution, OpenOffice > and Firefox. > > Our new thin clients are HP devices, running 800Mhz Crusoe chips with > a mini-Linux kernel on them.
I just ran a quick test on my ridiculously fast P4. If I use "X -extension RENDER :2" to disable the RENDER extension, and run a gnome-session in that server, everything is *incredibly* slow. We seriously suck when the RENDER extension is not presesnt. I don't know yet why that happens. Interestingly enough, running sysprof shows that *all* the time (94%) goes to the X server. I wonder why that happens, since, well, aren't we falling back to doing everything client-side? Your best bet is to see what GTK+ does in the fallback code that makes it so slow. Federico _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
