[sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Priority 2. I would love to have it but it might be too late, given >>> that Sayamindu experimentation run into interesting problems. >> >>

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Priority 2. I would love to have it but it might be too late

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAI

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-03 Thread Martin Dengler
As an aside... On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:16:27PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Sayamindu, you say you got OOM problems after activating composition, > can you check where that memory is going? Or might be the X server > crashing instead? Even on my C2 "yum search yummemoryimprovesinf9" causes sig

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-04 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside... > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:16:27PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Sayamindu, you say you got OOM problems after activating composition, >> can you check where that memory is going? Or might be the X server

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:28:40PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > I tried your ps_mem.py based tests [...] Cool -- looks like just moving to os16 + metacity saved at least 14 MiB[1] (not counting any python savings) and Xorg grew by 15 MiB. > Cheers, > Sayamindu Martin 1. 2 + 6 + 6 MiB: mat

Re: [sugar] Moving to metacity with composition (was: Preparing for the feature freeze)

2008-06-05 Thread Jim Gettys
For composition to not eat memory (a full frame buffer's worth/activity), the buried windows need to be "unmapped" in X parlance. When a window is unmapped, X can free the contents of the window even when composite is running (IIRC). This may require some work in whatever window manager we decide