Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:37:14 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities. Message-ID: <1206830234.21238.1.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <1206826026.22569.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1206757770.1755.5.camel@jill.exit.com> <1206766091.44236.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1206824121.40391.0.camel@jill.exit.com> <1206826026.22569.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 17:27 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 13:55 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 00:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:29 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded to gnome 2.22 from 2.20. I use evolution heavily > > > > and despite the talk of speed improvements in 2.22, on the contrary I > > > > see it being _much_ slower, on the order of half as fast. This is > > > > running on FreeBSD 6.2-stable (circa Jan 1 2008) on amd64. Nothing else > > > > seems particularly slower, just evolution. In particular I see redraws > > > > go very slowly, redrawing part, pausing, redrawing more, pausing, etc. > > > > > > Something else you might want to try is downgrading cairo to 1.4.14. > > > > This did the trick. It's back at the former speed (not blindingly fast > > but not painfully slow, either). > > If you upgrade back to 1.5.14, but remove > patch-src_cairo-xlib-display.c, does that also work? Indeed it does, thanks. To be crystal clear, I'm now running with cairo 1.5.14 but without the above patch, and performance might even be a little bit better than with cairo 1.4.14. Certainly it's no worse. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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