Gnome is a leaking resourcehog.

2005-04-12 Thread DmD (Spider) Ljungmark
Okay, today I just experienced a new level of leakage from GNOME in general. Disk space. In fact, it seems GNOME at the global level is horrid about disk cache management, in regards that it will happily spew out cached files onto the disk without ever reclaiming or cleaning it, or giving the use

Re: GUADEC Hacking

2005-04-12 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm a little skeptical because IIRC the mail I posted with the > > gconf-on-startup profiling numbers only showed 2-3 seconds for GConf. > > Which is worth fixing, but by no means explains the entire login time. > > A good place to start for full dat

Re: GUADEC Hacking

2005-04-12 Thread Jamie McCracken
Havoc Pennington wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:09 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: yes we know its disk seeks that are causing the problem and secondly GConf is the most disk intensive service at start up and lastly due to its design of having loads of files that need to be read. Put all three to