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Problems

Startup time of applications
Right after the homescreen has loaded, after the first boot, device is unusable for a while
Memory use
UI scrolling freezes for 1-2s from time to time
Startup time of the device

Reducing App Startup time

Tasks

last resort type of thing: taking NAND to use as swap (and destroying maemo installation)
Investigate impact of Locale parsing (see #Locale further down)

Tasks Done

Investigate effect on newer booster
- For boosted MTF apps, slightly less memory use for daemons, no improvement in startup (veskuh)
- For meego-ux apps, not yet working (msugano)
Investigate I/O priorities of daemons
- Should be ok, or maybe themedaemon's could be icnreased
Investigate if booster really helps (veskuh)
- Helps about 2s for widgetsgallery and settings (MTF apps that know how to utilize it properly)
- first launch of settings (duicontrolpanel) with booster: 4 sec, launches after that: 2.5 sec
- first launch of settings (duicontrolpanel) without booster: 6 sec, launches after that: 3 sec
- Does not help others. => booster-m can be disabled
launcher set I/O priority to IDLE for home this slows down startup of apps. Increase it to Normal (stskeeps)
eMMC performance investigation, maemo is 2-20x faster? see bug #18295 (Q/A team to rerun the tests)
- Not that much slower, and in fact many cases faster
eMMC vs. MMC, according to Sage, no major difference in old experiments

Reducing memory use

Tasks

adjust stack sizes
remove mdecorator

Tasks Done

Merge meego-volume-control to systemui (jpeltonen)
lower GLES ParamBuffer size (veskuh)
Investigtate GLES ParamBuffer size
- @1MB ParamBuffer for widgetsgallery uses ~1.5MB total memory reduction, ~2.5MB less private memory, and ~1MB more shared memory (measuerd with smaps)
- @1MB ParamBuffer ~10MB increase in available memory (free + buffers + cache) measured with top after boot
meego-ux to drop GL-context: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18268
Remove unused applifed processes. (Ronksu)
zram (formerly known as ramzswap and compcache) trial results (tazpa) No definite upside due to slow cpu and small ram of n900

Improving first boot

Tasks

Reduce the number of .desktop files and icons meegohome scans at first boot (vnayani)

Tasks Done

delay start of tracker indexing (maitrey)
System does this already: reduce I/O priority of tracker-miner and tracker-store (use ionice to to launch)

Not doable

tracker to preindex filesystem to improve first boot. see bug #18759 (maitrey)

Improving system startup

Tasks

Reduce the list of autostarted apps.

Tasks Done

tracker configuration (maitrey)
autostarted backlight setup.desktop file removed from the nokia-n900-configs (mce handles backlight) (lamikr)
bootchart generated svg from the N900 processes starting up attached to bug https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9527 (lamikr)
avahi changed to started on demand via dbus service file instead of launching automatically. (lamikr) [1]
fixed the meegotouch-home io-priority. Affects to all apps launched from desktop. (stskeeps)
Delay the startup of dialer, trackers, etc. to happen once destop is ready (lamikr) [2]

Improving UI Performance

Tasks

Tasks Done

Check if newer Qt improves performance
Check if newer MTF improves performance (mirek)

Misc

Tasks

CGROUPS optimization
optimizing MTF packages, there might be some configuration options, etc.?
cache some often used data in NAND and symlink there
Taking fennec more frequently from upstream beta repository http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-handset/2011-June/000467.html
Profile startup of simple MTF, QML, and Qt apps
Profile memory use of simple MTF, QML, and Qt apps
Investigate configuration options for MTF
Investigate configuration options for Qt
Investigate configuration options for QML
Update Qt
Tweak readahead. blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/mmcblk0 seems to help application start-up and boot. (phdeswer)
- We did a test build and Q/A did not find any improvement instead actually a bit of regression. This would need more analysis.

Tasks Done

Update MTF (libmeegotouch, mcompositor, home, system ui, etc. ) to get latest optimizations from upstream (mirek)
test overclock with known testing (from qa-tools guys perhaps)
- kjokinie: Tested on my set up boot-times with some overclock configurations already
  - practically it does not help at least boot time
  - however, at least audio player seemed much more responsive, so application performances should still be tested by QA.
Carsten tweaked kernel virtual memory settings (increased swappiness), Fennec bootup improved a lot and also system responsivness
real microsdhc tests based on class speed rating
- actually answer specific questions about how write/read speed effect perf
  - app startup times
  - general usage
  - media write times
  - cataloguing media
thumbnails images for pre-installed images should be done during the build time. (Now thumbnails are generated only when user wants to get the image list and that takes times)

Not realistic

Swap on memory card (probably will not help if the os is on the card also, otherwise might)

Benchmark results

Results from Q/A http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/QA/Performance
Different class SD card benchmarking
- Used image 05-30.1 acceptance image
- With class 10 card image worked really unstable. Measurements were got after several tries.
- Current class10 measurements are not comparable but give somekind of direction
SunSpider (JavaScript performance
- 6.1s with GPE MiniBrowser (image DE.2011-05-30 acceptance)
- 6.8s with Fennec (image DE.2011-05-30 acceptance)
- These are actually pretty good results. Indicates that raw CPU perfomance is ok.
widgetsgallery -timedemo -log-fps

Page name                    StaticPageBenchmark (0)  PanningBenchmark (0)  RotationBenchmark (90)  StaticPageBenchmark (90)  PanningBenchmark (90)  RotationBenchmark (0)  
ApplicationMenu                 48fps | 2988ms                 n/a | n/a             25fps |  557ms          53fps | 2984ms                   n/a | n/a             29fps |  578ms      
DisplayModes                    55fps | 2989ms           54fps |  421ms        40fps |  574ms          53fps | 2983ms                   n/a | n/a             47fps |  546ms      
ToolBar                         51fps | 2972ms           41fps |  503ms        34fps |  602ms          55fps | 2998ms            46fps |  298ms         20fps |  250ms      
CustomNavigationBar             53fps | 2989ms                 n/a | n/a             46fps |  579ms          54fps | 2980ms                   n/a | n/a             52fps |  572ms      
Label                           50fps | 3157ms           45fps |   87ms               n/a | n/a              54fps | 2989ms                   n/a | n/a             40fps |  573ms      
Image                           55fps | 2996ms           55fps |  379ms               n/a | n/a              52fps | 2989ms            54fps |  129ms          7fps |  139ms       
ProgressBar                     49fps | 2981ms                 n/a | n/a             34fps |  644ms          54fps | 2973ms                   n/a | n/a             36fps |  627ms      
Spinner                         52fps | 2989ms                 n/a | n/a                    n/a | n/a              53fps | 2989ms                   n/a | n/a             27fps |  436ms       
PushButton                      48fps | 2982ms           45fps | 3427ms        28fps |  671ms          47fps | 2985ms            44fps | 4521ms                n/a | n/a          
IconButton                      52fps | 2991ms                 n/a | n/a             35fps |  674ms          54fps | 2989ms                   n/a | n/a             38fps |  621ms      
Switch                          54fps | 2989ms                 n/a | n/a             31fps |  694ms          54fps | 2991ms                   n/a | n/a             28fps |  657ms      
Checkbox                        52fps | 2989ms                 n/a | n/a             30fps |  780ms          54fps | 2997ms                   n/a | n/a             38fps |  649ms      
ButtonGroup                     53fps | 3005ms           27fps |  323ms               n/a | n/a              50fps | 2988ms            52fps |  491ms                n/a | n/a          
SingleSelectionDialogsPage      56fps | 2998ms           46fps |  345ms               n/a | n/a              53fps | 3004ms                   n/a | n/a             42fps |  654ms      
QueryDialogsPage                50fps | 2997ms                 n/a | n/a             35fps |  696ms          53fps | 2987ms                   n/a | n/a             36fps |  655ms      
SheetsPage                      54fps | 2988ms           59fps |  151ms               n/a | n/a              55fps | 2982ms                   n/a | n/a             40fps |  666ms      
BannersPage                     51fps | 2996ms                 n/a | n/a             37fps |  740ms          54fps | 3000ms                   n/a | n/a             38fps |  671ms      
NotificationsPage               54fps | 2994ms                 n/a | n/a             35fps |  733ms          55fps | 3000ms                   n/a | n/a             39fps |  678ms      
List                            54fps | 2989ms           53fps |20539ms         2fps |  485ms          56fps | 2973ms            51fps |19630ms                n/a | n/a          
Grid                            16fps | 2961ms           48fps | 2777ms        16fps | 1016ms          42fps | 3147ms            48fps | 3252ms                n/a | n/a          
ObjectMenu                      44fps | 2988ms           52fps |  248ms               n/a | n/a              54fps | 2991ms            55fps |  181ms                n/a | n/a          
ComboBox                        52fps | 2946ms                 n/a | n/a             25fps |  856ms          53fps | 2984ms                   n/a | n/a             30fps |  784ms      
ContentItems                    55fps | 2987ms           39fps | 4197ms               n/a | n/a              54fps | 2988ms            29fps | 3483ms          7fps |  407ms      
SpeechBubble                    52fps | 2986ms           47fps | 3842ms               n/a | n/a              51fps | 2989ms            29fps | 3906ms                n/a | n/a          
TextEntry                       54fps | 2988ms           43fps | 3209ms               n/a | n/a              52fps | 2988ms            35fps | 2541ms                n/a | n/a          
TextEntryNavigation             53fps | 2989ms                 n/a | n/a             18fps |  912ms          50fps | 2982ms                   n/a | n/a             22fps |  794ms      
TextEntryAttributeExtension     54fps | 2988ms           41fps |  192ms               n/a | n/a              53fps | 2988ms                   n/a | n/a             19fps |  860ms      
Slider                          54fps | 2997ms           37fps |  404ms               n/a | n/a              53fps | 2989ms                   n/a | n/a             18fps |  865ms      
InputFeedback                   52fps | 2988ms           55fps |   90ms        19fps |  902ms          40fps | 2988ms            43fps |   69ms                n/a | n/a          
Information Display             53fps | 3001ms           26fps |  188ms        24fps |  930ms          54fps | 2999ms                   n/a | n/a             28fps |  857ms      
Take a screenshot               49fps | 3217ms                 n/a | n/a             23fps | 1028ms          55fps | 2978ms                   n/a | n/a             26fps |  893ms

- Conclusion: Graphis performance seems to be ok

processes eating more than 2000kb of memory (2010-06-08)
- (ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW100)

 2016 /usr/sbin/ofonod
 2228 /usr/sbin/connmand -W nl80211,wext
 2400 uxlaunch
 2616 /sbin/mce -d
 2624 /usr/libexec/upowerd
 2952 /usr/sbin/dsme -p /usr/lib/dsme/libstartup.so
 3084 /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
 3440 /usr/bin/meego-volume-control
 3616 /usr/sbin/sensord -c=/etc/sensorfw/sensord-rx_51.conf -d --log-target=4 --log-file-path=/var/l
 3900 /usr/bin/timed
 3984 /usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd
 4084 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start -n --file=/etc/pulse/arm_nokia_rx_51_board.pa
 4564 /usr/sbin/ohmd
 7172 /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
 7460 /usr/bin/applifed
12384 /usr/bin/applauncherd.bin                                                   
14160 /usr/libexec/tracker-store
14524 /usr/bin/messageserver
16568 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -dpi 120 -nolisten tcp -noreset -auth /home/meego/.Xauthority -nocursor vt2
20108 /usr/bin/mthemedaemon
21676 /usr/bin/mcompositor
26820 /usr/bin/meego-im-uiserver -remote-theme
27344 booster-m
27852 /usr/bin/mdecorator -software -remote-theme
32620 /usr/bin/sysuid -remote-theme
33172 /usr/bin/meegotouchhome -remote-theme
38544 /usr/bin/dialer -prestart

Conclusion: meego-volume-control went down from 26000 kb to 3440 thanks for the qml ripout
Can we reduce the mem usage of processes like sysuid, mdecorator, mthemedaemon
Is booster-m really improving our performance as it takes itself a lot of from our memory that we do not have any extra without swapping?
- by removing the applauncherd (process starting booster-m) and tracker-store and delaying the dialer ui (40000 kb) launch by 30 second, bootup time will improved from 72 second to 59.

Locale Parsing

Currently inside N900-CE image, the folder /usr/share/locale contains over 500 items many of these are placeholders for real language support and do not contain much. Veskuh said that we only include the Community translations in this image.

Having such a cluttered folder with placemarks only puts a negative impact in file system performance and app startup time. In rough tests, removing this folder improves startup time.

Proper analysis of this is required and a compromise where translations are still working but without wasted space is important.

For later investigation, find other filesystem hotspots which have similar large folders full of placeholders.

<lcuk> veskuh, is there a tool which tells which folders are scanned whilst starting app?
<Stskeeps> strace?
<veskuh> strace
<lcuk> hmm looking now
<lcuk> strace is on the n900-ce image :)
<lcuk> thx

Tools & Links

Smaps (Memory use) http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Developers/Sp_smaps_snapshot
Bootup script for collecting data from smaps and other memory usage tools
Bonnie (I/O performance) http://wiki.meego.com/Bonnie
Bootchart for measuring bootup details
Gprof
Perf (this is on images by default) http://omappedia.org/wiki/Using_perf
IOtop (this is on images by default) http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/
vmstat
iostat
Oprofile (obsolete, use perf instead)
More: http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Developer_tools
QML Performance Monitor: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/04/07/qml-perfomance-monitor/
libmeegotouch benchmarks: http://meego.gitorious.net/meegotouch/libmeegotouch/trees/master/benchmarks
strace (see locale above)

Ideas

Use settings from M5 rc scripts, such as reducing ptys, etc to save memory

Team meeting minutes

http://irclogs.meego.com/meetbot/meego-meeting/2011/meego-meeting.2011-06-10-06.58.html

Retrieved from "http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Performance"

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 = CE Performance page =
-== UX & Performance team ==
-* Communications
-** IRC-channel #meego-arm at freenode
-** CE daily meetings (time tbd)
-** meego-handset mailing list
-* Contributors
-** Vesa-Matti Hartikainen IRC-nick: veskuh
-** Vijay Nayani IRC-nick: vnayani
-** Timo Rongas IRC-nick: ronksu
-** Miroslav Safr IRC-nick: mirek or mirek2
-** Gary Birkett IRC-nick: lcuk
 == Problems ==
@@ Line 19: / Line 7: @@
 * UI scrolling freezes for 1-2s from time to time
 * Startup time of the device
-== Task list ==
-=== UX fixes ===
-'''Tasks'''
-* Theming bugs
-* Localization issues (Apps team in apps, gabor, zgyarmati in control panels)
-* SMS does not not notify user (mkainu)
-* Remove systemui looking bar from meego-ux apps (it's confusing since it is not fully functional)
-'''Tasks Done'''
-* Orientation issue with meego-ux-apps (Ronksu)
-* Close button for meego-ux based apps (selesnie)
-** This should be done on generic component itself, not to individual apps
-* Meta bug for UX and usability issues for Summer Release created:
-  [http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18862 Bug 18862] - [META] [DE] UX glitches and bad usability in N900 DE Summer Release
 === Reducing App Startup time ===
@@ Line 59: / Line 32: @@
 === Reducing memory use ===
 '''Tasks'''
-* Merge meego-volume-control to systemui (jpeltonen)
 * adjust stack sizes
-* zram (formerly known as ramzswap and compcache) trial [[User:Tazpa/zram|results]] (tazpa)
 * remove mdecorator
 '''Tasks Done'''
+* Merge meego-volume-control to systemui (jpeltonen)
 * lower GLES ParamBuffer size (veskuh)
 * Investigtate GLES ParamBuffer size
@@ Line 72: / Line 43: @@
 * meego-ux to drop GL-context: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18268
 * Remove unused applifed processes. (Ronksu)
+* zram (formerly known as ramzswap and compcache) trial [[User:Tazpa/zram|results]] (tazpa) No definite upside due to slow cpu and small ram of n900
 === Improving first boot ===
 '''Tasks'''
 * Reduce the number of .desktop files and icons meegohome scans at first boot (vnayani)
 '''Tasks Done'''
@@ Line 88: / Line 59: @@
 '''Tasks'''
 * Reduce the list of [[ARM/N900/Performance/autostart|autostarted apps.]]
-* tracker configuration (maitrey)
 '''Tasks Done'''
+* tracker configuration (maitrey)
 * autostarted backlight setup.desktop file removed from the nokia-n900-configs (mce handles backlight) (lamikr)
 * bootchart generated svg from the N900 processes starting up attached to bug https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9527 (lamikr)
@@ Line 99: / Line 70: @@
 === Improving UI Performance ===
 '''Tasks'''
-* Check if newer MTF improves performance (mirek)
-* Check if newer Qt improves performance
 '''Tasks Done'''
+* Check if newer Qt improves performance
+* Check if newer MTF improves performance (mirek)
 === Misc ===
@@ Line 114: / Line 86: @@
 * Investigate configuration options for Qt
 * Investigate configuration options for QML
-* Update MTF (libmeegotouch, mcompositor, home, system ui, etc. ) to get latest optimizations from upstream (mirek)
 * Update Qt
 * Tweak readahead. blockdev --setra 2048 /dev/mmcblk0 seems to help application start-up and boot. (phdeswer)
+** We did a test build and Q/A did not find any improvement instead actually a bit of regression. This would need more analysis.
 '''Tasks Done'''
+* Update MTF (libmeegotouch, mcompositor, home, system ui, etc. ) to get latest optimizations from upstream (mirek)
 * test overclock with known testing (from qa-tools guys perhaps)
 ** kjokinie: Tested on my set up boot-times with some [[ARM/N900/Performance/OverclockBootTimeTest | overclock configurations]] already
@@ Line 259: / Line 232: @@
 == Team meeting minutes ==
-Team meetings will be held every monday at 8:00 (UTC) at #meego-meeting IRC-channel on freenode.
+* http://irclogs.meego.com/meetbot/meego-meeting/2011/meego-meeting.2011-06-10-06.58.html
-http://irclogs.meego.com/meetbot/meego-meeting/2011/meego-meeting.2011-06-10-06.58.html

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ARM/N900/Performance

Latest revision as of 13:00, 6 October 2011

Contents

CE Performance page

Problems

Reducing App Startup time

Reducing memory use

Improving first boot

Improving system startup

Improving UI Performance

Misc

Benchmark results

Locale Parsing

Tools & Links

Ideas

Team meeting minutes

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