In-proc some applets to reduce memory

[Ben Maurer]

By making the notification applet and wnck applet inprocess, about 4 mb of memory can be saved on the desktop. Trash-applet is also a good candidate for in-proc'ing.

See discuession and patch:

http://bmaurer.blogspot.com/2006/04/fighting-daemons.html
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~bmaurer/memory/13_inproc.patch

openSUSE has been applying a similar patch and it is on target for 10.1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you Ben. Did you send those patches (they should be splitted since they changed different tarballs actually) upstream? Do you have the bugzilla bug numbers for them? I'll look at doing the changes before dapper but having them upstream too would be nice!

[Michael Frank (msfrank)]

split patch and added them to bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339362
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339363
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339364

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is there an easy way to verify if the patch works correctly? How do you get the usage for an applet?

[Ben Maurer (bmaurer)]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 21:49 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Is there an easy way to verify if the patch works correctly? How do you
> get the usage for an applet?

Use the script here:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~bmaurer/memory/smem.pl

You want to check that the non-shared rss for {gnome-panel after patch}
< Sum [{gnome-panel + all applets before the patch}

-- Ben

[Ben Maurer (bmaurer)]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 22:08 +0000, Ben Maurer wrote:
>
>
> Use the script here:
>
> http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~bmaurer/memory/smem.pl
>
> You want to check that the non-shared rss for {gnome-panel after
> patch}
> < Sum [{gnome-panel + all applets before the patch}

Btw, an example of the measurements I did:

http://bmaurer.blogspot.com/2006/04/fighting-daemons.html

See the table in that post. That should give you a good number on the
reduction as a result of this patch.

-- Ben

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 gnome-panel (2.14.1-0ubuntu10) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/gnome-panel.install:
     - list new .so built instead of the binaries to the new patch
   * debian/patches/10_some_applets_in_proc.patch:
      - patch by Ben Maurer <email address hidden>
      - change some applets to be in-proc for best memory usage on the desktop
        (Ubuntu: #39155)
   * debian/patches/12_autoconf.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/99_about-ubuntu-translation.patch:
     - updated