[Unison-hackers] unison overdrawing UI...

[Jerome Vouillon]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:14:15PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> Using unison-gtk 2.32.52, I am seeing a significant amount of time
> spent by Xorg redrawing the GTK UI. The processor usage breaks down as
> (on a multi-core system): 67% processor time unison, 53% Xorg, 8% ssh.
> 
> From ltrace profiling, gtk_clist_set_text is being called at ~33
> times/s. Though this wouldn't initially seem excessive, but some X
> servers (eg radeon) do not accelerate some GTK operations efficiently,
> or on laptop GPUs (in my case), draw performance is comparatively
> poor; this will have high impact over an X TCP connection too.
> 
> Since the UI is not changing when the drawing occurs, it is redundant.
> Is there plan to address this in some way?

That should be fixed in Unison 2.40

-- Jerome