Re: slow fluxbox

Hi,

0.9.12 (and almost all earlier 0.9.x versions) had some fairly hefty 
memory and CPU wastage. This was largely fixed in 0.9.13.

However, if people experience delays with fluxbox _on startup_, then it is 
very likely fonts-related. This is because fluxbox used font-selections 
that were too broad. This problem should be fixed in current SVN 
(revision 4060 and above).

Current subversion also has some further memory+CPU improvements on top of 
0.9.13.

So:
  - Yes, fluxbox starts slow in some locales for 0.9.13 and earlier. This
    is because of fonts and has been fixed in current svn, please try it -
    we'd be interested to confirm that it is fixed.
  - Yes, fluxbox was slower to startup, restart, reload large menus for
    0.9.12 and earlier. This is fixed in 0.9.13.

So, with current subversion, on a modern machine, fluxbox itself should 
start up in under a second. If anything appears to take longer, check that 
your startup scripts aren't launching something slow (like firefox) before 
launching fluxbox.

If you're using CVS from sourceforge, you need to update - we've moved 
away from that: http://www.fluxbox.org/download.php#svn

Cheers,

  - Simon

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Ward Poelmans wrote:

> Mathias Gumz wrote:
>> and i have some more tests flying here around after some more improvements.
>> so, i dont think fluxbox in general is becoming slower and slower.
>> there is still room for improvement but general statements like "fbox
>> on a p4 is slower than on a p3" are not really helpful. a lot of
>> things have to come together or can be messed up.
>
> Well, I think is very slow on the startup. Very very slow.
> It takes at least 10s to complete start. I'm not starting
> that many or heavy apps.
>
> Ward
>
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