1 Jun
2011
1 Jun
'11
6:24 p.m.
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:16 +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:
Le Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:49:06 +0200,
Nick Copeland <nickycopeland(a)hotmail.com> a écrit :
On a weak computer the usage of a frame based environment, e.g. Ion2
does help, switching between a 'usual' DE and a 'lightweight' DE IMO
doesn't make a big difference. On a fast computer IMO we should use the
WM that is best for our work flows. But that's OT ... pardon. I'm queit
now, just wanted to inform about, what I call a 'big problem', the
strange settings for limits.conf.
I might get flamed for this however GUI should not really be run with
rt priority, that is an honour for the DSP engines. There are some
reasonable arguments however for leaning on the scheduler with renice
for the user interfaces to give them a bit of a bias over other
system operations. Admittedly a big topic since the GUI probably sits
on top of the windowing system anyway.
So I have not used renice on graphics/GUI processes but I have worked
on systems where the RT DSP code is happily chewing up 75% of CPU to
churn out 32 unified synth voices and the GUI response can then give
a bad impression of an application. Renice will help the sometime
intensive graphics manipulation code (which is surprisingly close to
DSP anyway if you are doing subpixel image transforms with shadow
rendering) to get a little more of the now starved system resources.
I think than the wm in use can maybe have an impact on the graphical
responsiveness. When running a single mono processor, I get up with
jack at more than 95% CPU, this with gentoo running a rt kernel, fvwm
and the fvwm-crystal theme. Sometime, the graphical response was a
little bit slow. A few times, the wm was frozen during one or 2
seconds, even the cursor. But the audio process in JACK was just fine
and without any xrun. I was very surprised, this was amazing, like in
window$, but without the crash -:)
I cannot imagine to do the same with kde or another wm, in fact I don't
know if it can be possible.
Now, on a multi-processor, I never experimented such a slow down of
fvwm, but I didn't use jack with such a high load than before.
Dominique