On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 06:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Le Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 21:46:02 -0500, Branden Robinson a écrit: > > [...] > > ok, further to our convo a couple of weeks ago (?), i've been testing > the dfsg versioned .debs, and i still get the same symptoms, but the > load doesn't go as high, nor does it take 5-10 minutes, but does take > longer than a minute to open an x-based app. i've tried both the > "dri-enabled" xserver i have installed (from michel daenzer's archive) and > the distributed one, and both behave similarly. load hovers around 1-3 > instead of 2-5, and like i said, about 1 minute or sometimes more > (depending on the application). the wait is a noticable one. for > instance gnome takes 10+ minutes to start, instead of about 5+ minutes. > > you asked me once on #debian-devel if it was the server or the clients > that drove up the load, i had replied to you it was the clients. it's > still true, as i see openbox and other clients use up a lot of cpu > starting up.
All the apps you've mentioned use Xft and fontconfig; does the problem also occur with clients that don't use those? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
