I've hacked around a bit with this piece of software, to reduce the whopping >40MB memory-consumption of 3ddeskd down to about 17MB. This is done by 2 things: - free some imlib-objects that are only needed once, after the image transformation is done. Which saves ~10MB at no cost. - introduce texture-compression, which saves another 17MB at the default texture-size. Gets only activated if you put "compression 1" into your 3ddesktop.conf It also fixes a minor bug regarding the --acquire=... option. The timing should work more reliable now. 3ddeskd hung for me, when started with --acquire=X and X>99 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Invoke 3ddeskd like this: > 3ddeskd --acquire=100, or something >100 Actual Results: 3ddeskd starts, acquires the first desktop and then hangs Expected Results: 3ddeskd should acquire all my desktops with the given delay. (and shouldn't use more resident memory than my X-Server) :) The patch is against 3ddesktop-0.2.5
Created attachment 17704 [details, diff] The patch to fix the bug, cut down mem-consumption and make the use of compressed textures possible
Just as a sidenote: make sure you sent the patch to the main developer too.. (would be bard at systemtoolbox.com according to README)
Created attachment 23494 [details, diff] patch for the 0.2.5 ebuild, implements the patch from first attachment Works for me. Copy patch into files dir, named 3ddeskMEM+Compression+Fix-0.2.5.patch
Of course I've sent this patch to the main developer, too. I think it's in his CVS-tree. But Brad seems to be really busy and a new release is not in sight.
fwiw, i've applied the patch and rebuilt locally and it builds clean and does seem to run a bit smoother than before. cheers
In cvs, thanks
