[gtkada] xrestop

[Emmanuel Briot]

I didn't intend to send this to the mailing list originally, but in fact
this might be useful for quite a number of people using GtkAda and
developing graphical applications!


Emmanuel Briot wrote:
> I just became aware of the "xrestop" tool
> (http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xrestop or from the SUSE dvd).
> 
> This is similar to top, but allows you to monitor the impact of your
> application on the Xserver.
> For instance, for a running GPS, I have:
> 
> lyon gps/gvd/gvd [1798]>xrestop -b | grep -A 14 gps
> 4 - GPS - GNAT Programming Studio (project: GPS) - gps-kernel-hooks.ads
> ( PID:  ?   ):
>         res_base      : ox4000000
>         res_mask      : ox1fffff
>         windows       : 314
>         GCs           : 120
>         fonts         : 2
>         pixmaps       : 742
>         pictures      : 370
>         glyphsets     : 3
>         colormaps     : 0
>         passive grabs : 0
>         cursors       : 20701
>         unknowns      : 11
>         pixmap bytes  : 2036668
>         other bytes   : ~518504
> 
> which indicates the number of X11 windows, graphical contets, pixmaps in
> memory,... and allows to monitor for leaks for instance. This could be
> very useful in the context of GPS, and we should probably investigate
> how to have an automatic test based on that
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