[Pan-users] Re: reducing memory usage

[Kurt B Cox]

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Duncan wrote:
> "Charles Kerr" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted
> below, on  Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:16:45 -0500:
> 
>> Yesterday I gave 0.110 the a.b.m.startrek challenge -- it failed.
>> The 'get headers' task was doing things that were find for regular
>> groups, even large groups, but once you get up past 1,000,000 headers
>> the overhead snowballed.
>>
>> I gave bugzilla a longish brain dump on the things I found wrong.
>> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353334 for more info.
>>
>> More importantly, it also has a patch to fix this in 0.111.  I tested
>> the patch against both 0.110 and 0.14.9x CVS, and the patch won.
>> memory comparisons are also included in the bug report.
> 
> I got around to applying the patch here yesterday, and while I've not
> seriously stress-tested it yet, I've already noted the difference in CPU
> usage.
> 
> The contrast between 0.109 and 0.110 with this patch reminds me of the
> difference between trying to use composite rendering on xorg-7.0, vs. 7.1
> and finally 7.1.1 after switching to EXA from XAA.  7.1.1 w/ EXA and
> composite uses little CPU and is actually useful.  7.0 w/ XAA and
> composite was nice eye candy, but used up way more CPU and had too much
> built-in delay to actually be used, at least on my Radeon 9200 w/ xorg
> drivers.  (7.0 EXA was too crashy, 7.1.1 XAA still uses CPU and I doubt
> that will change.)
> 
> So now I get to use /both/ fancy EXA/composite /and/ fancy pan, without
> undue strain or slowdown.  =8^)
> 

Hear, Hear

7.1.1 with EXA/Composite rocks.

What is video player gives you the best results?

VLC, Mplayer, totem w/gstreamer or Xine?
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