From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 22:37:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71281106566B for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B798F8FC1A for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from jill.exit.com (jill.exit.com [206.223.0.4]) by tinker.exit.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2TMbFsZ026447; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple/simple; d=exit.com; s=tinker; t=1206830235; bh=zB1WMrZ7y2KS1yeRz35lERcHBm8=; h=X-Authentication-Warning:Subject:From:Reply-To:To:Cc:In-Reply-To: References:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Organization: Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer; b=kPLaB8yJfZImZ7b50e6BlRI61 X+7sWYr+mkYK9Q0uAyVoQuK8A9Ja7aIbMSGFPOouYW1mGiEBrrWVgI8ZC10Xp7nQi1Q opKWYgnqHkNCy1X7mjh1434amc5zFmqoLtEQFr2xn7oUq7GwMfPgSmo7vm445vMlzyO Id1uCDHN9aPg= Received: from jill.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jill.exit.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2TMbF3e030060; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:37:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by jill.exit.com (8.14.1/8.14.2/Submit) id m2TMbEfu030057; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) X-Authentication-Warning: jill.exit.com: frank set sender to frank@exit.com using -f From: Frank Mayhar To: Joe Marcus Clarke 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Exit Consulting Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:37:14 -0700 Message-Id: <1206830234.21238.1.camel@jill.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/6468/Sat Mar 29 11:53:17 2008 on tinker.exit.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:37:21 -0000 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*