Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:17:35 +0100
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr, lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: New snapshot of lablgtk2
Message-ID: <20030215071735.GA1215 at iliana>
References: <20030212071527.GA3386 at iliana> <20030212165619M.garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> <20030214161325.GA6897 at iliana> <20030215101910D.garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20030215101910D.garrigue at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
From: Sven Luther <luther at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:19:10AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
> 
> > Did anyone try using lablgtk2 on old video hardware ? I am trying to
> > launch lablgtk2 program on this box which only has an S3 Trio, and well,
> > there is lot of swapping and CPU usage, but even the simple hello.ml
> > example never shows up. The lablgtk version takes time to appear, but
> > appear after a few seconds, while the lablgtk2 version does not, and
> > after a few seconds, i kill the process.
> > 
> > Apart from the graphic card, it is an ok machine (dual celeron 466 with
> > 256Mo of ram).
> 
> Is the problem specific to lablgtk2, or also happens with other gtk2
> programs?

Well, metacity and gnome2 seem to work fine, with AA fonts and
everything, i was not able to open a new gtk2 windows, but i had not
much of them installed.

> One potential cause is the absence of a Render extension in the X
> server. I could avoid it by setting GDK_USE_XFT to 0 (i.e., disable
> truetype fonts).
>    env GDK_USE_XFT=0 lablgtk2
> The use of this environment variable should be more advertised!

Yes, i will try that, but i believe it may more probably be a memory
leak somewhere, since launching a lablgtk2 program did eat all free
memory, and if i killed the netspeed applet (which did eat around 250Mo
of memory, all in swap space, a bit silly for a little applet like that)
i managed to launch the gtk2 app, but still it used a lot of memory, a
lot more than what lablgtk1 apps used to do.

On my home box, it eats only 12 Mo and 6 Mo, it was way more here.

Anyway, i don't think it is a lablgtk2 issue.

Friendly,

Sven Luther