GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 359703
Slow speed
Last modified: 2006-10-05 13:10:35 UTC
When using a propietary, windows-only, commercial newsreader, I noticed I was pulling much better speed that with pan. The difference is signicative, like 450 versus 650 KB/s. However this unnamed newreader was hogging the CPU, either by agressive scheduling/port monitoring or simply slow algorithm/programming language. I don't think this can be easily improved, and may be partly due on glib, but I still wanted to mention this fact.
Not to ignore the point at hand, but as an aside... what was the CPU usage like on Windows at 450 KB/s?
The proprietary software: around 30% Pan: around (less) than 5% Of course decoding is not considered in that figure. I think this might be considered a duplicate of bug #359197: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359197 Contrary to that bug report, I think I have observed the problem for longer, but I don't think it really underlines anything different in the end.
Socket polling on Windows and OS X are slower than on Linux, for different reasons, so g_io_add_watch() is likely to be the problem in both cases... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 359197 ***