Xpra: Ticket #1944: parsing the command line is too expensive

The audio subprocess ends up loading picture and video codecs, initializing dozens of loggers, etc.

This was already improved slightly:



Sun, 02 Sep 2018 05:56:31 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

Done for video encoders in r20269 + r20270. We now launch all sound subprocesses with the extra arguments:

'--windows=no', \
'--video-encoders=none', '--csc-modules=none', \
'--video-decoders=none', '--proxy-video-encoders=none'

This avoids loading the "video helper" class, which would load the video and csc codecs. The list of arguments can be overriden with XPRA_DEFAULT_SOUND_COMMAND_ARGS.

One area where we could still do better is packet encoding and compression: we load all of them (ie: lz4, lzo and zlib - rencode, bencode and yaml) whether we use them or not. Not a big problem since those are all quite small.

@maxmylyn: just a FYI. The audio subprocess should start a bit faster (barely measurable in most cases) and use less memory.


Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:45:39 GMT - J. Max Mena: status changed; resolution set

Noted and closing.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:37:58 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1944