Re: [STUMP] profiling StumpWM

[Evan]

I run SBCL and don't notice this problem in general. If you'd like some
system stats as a sanity test, or as a way to perhaps rule out some
things, let me know.

Evan
On 03/25/2014 11:08 AM, Shawn Betts wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I've found the same thing with SBCL, which is why I switched to clisp.
> If you can discover the issue, that would be amazing. This was all
> years ago when 256M of ram was "enough". I sort of had a hunch that it
> was paging related.
> 
> -Shawn
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm constantly getting laggy prefix-key detection (I thought it had
>> gotten better, but it hadn't). I hit "C-t", and then the next keypress
>> or two goes to the active window, not StumpWM. My girlfriend has already
>> learned that when I send her "go" in Pidgin, I'm not actually telling
>> her to go anywhere, I was just trying to switch to the other group.
>>
>> Plenty of other commands, particularly frame- and group-related
>> commands, take a very user-visible chunk of time to execute. Resuming
>> from hibernation, it can take seven or eight seconds before StumpWM
>> starts seeing the prefix key.
>>
>> I'm quite sure that the problems aren't Stump-only problems, but
>> something going on with the stump/SBCL on my machine (arch linux, as I
>> mentioned), but I hope that profiling would help uncover those issues as
>> well.
>>
>> E
>>
>> On 03/25/14 16:39 PM, Ivan Kanis wrote:
>>> March, 25 at 11:50 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I still can't get rid of the idea that Stump is slow, both in reaction
>>>> to input and in its own operations. I know very little about profiling,
>>>> but I thought I'd take a whack at it and see if I could learn anything.
>>>> So far I haven't learned very much.
>>>
>>> What kind of slowness? I use it at work and it's snappy.
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>> --
>>> You must no lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
>>> drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
>>>     -- Gandhi
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