MCS manager [WAS: screenshot plugin and xfmenu grab]

[Aaron]

could you also post a comparison to xfce4-panel? thats the one that
seems to take up the most memory, and the longest load time. mcs seems
quite light acctaully after it loads gtk...



On 3/12/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Benny,
>
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >
> > Please, not another useless MCS plugin. The MCS manager already takes a
> > lot of time to startup and requires way too much memory. Why not simply
> > store the two/three prefs using XfceRc (that's what the panel does)?
>
> I don't know why you keep saying that the MCS manager requires too much
> memory. It does its job and I'm not sure it uses more memory than other
> components.
>
> If I look at the values on my system, I see nothing wrong with MCS
> manager memory usage:
>
> mcs-manager
> ===========
> Virtual memory: 89.8Mb
> Resident memory:7.2Mb
> Shared memory: 3.6Mb
>
> Compared with other components:
>
> Thunar
> ======
> Virtual Memory: 101.1 Mb
> Resident memory: 13.5 Mb
> Share memory 8.2 Mb
>
> Terminal
> ========
> Virtual memory: 81.4Mb
> Resident memory: 17.2Mb
> Shared memory: 7.9Mb
>
> xfwm4
> =====
> Virtual memory: 62.7Mb
> Resident memory: 8.9Mb
> Shared memory: 6.1Mb
>
> xfce4-panel
> ===========
> Virtual memory: 75.6Mb
> Resident memory: 11.4Mb
> Shared memory: 7.1Mb
>
> Ubuntu update notifier
> ======================
> Virtual memory: 96.4Mb
> Resident memory: 11.5Mb
> Shared memory: 8.4Mb
>
> xfdesktop
> =========
> Virtual memory: 97.0Mb
> Resident memory: 12.6Mb
> Shared memory: 7.8Mb
>
> Now about startup time. It's usually the first component to run, so it
> has to load all of the missing libraries. When I look at the numbers (by
> enabling --enable-loadprof for example), I don't think it's that much of
> a problem :
>
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/ui_plugin.so in 1.252189 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/keyboard_plugin.so in 0.028981 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/mouse_plugin.so in 0.028982 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/screensaver_plugin.so in 0.008994 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/shortcuts_plugin.so in 0.074951 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/display_plugin.so in 0.023985 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/sound_settings.so in 0.011992 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/session_settings.so in 0.000000 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/splash_settings.so in 0.001999 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/terminal_settings.so in 0.017988 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/backdrop_settings.so in 0.011992 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/workspaces_plugin.so in 0.595614 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/xfwm4_plugin.so in 0.131915 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/orage_plugin.so in 0.001999 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/xfprint_plugin.so in 0.016989 sec.
> Started /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/wmtweaks_plugin.so in 0.000999 sec.
> Started
> /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/exo-preferred-applications-settings.so in
> 0.000999 sec.
>
> (I suspect the ui plugin is taking longer because it affect gtk apps and
> the mcs manage ritself is a gtk application, and therefore it has to
> update its theme and engine in the same time)
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
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