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Subject: Re: ports/54817: After some time of work text selection in
gnome_terminal is too long
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:21:56 +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
<vova@fbsd.ru> wrote:
> В вт, 14.10.2003, в 07:26, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:
>> Synopsis: After some time of work text selection in gnome_terminal is
>> too long
>>
>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>> State-Changed-By: marcus
>> State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 13 20:26:18 PDT 2003
>> State-Changed-Why:
>> gnome-terminal 2.4.x with vte 0.11.x has been greatly improved.
>
> Nothing changed about PR:
Well, I still think you should contract to the Gnome team. Those issues
are known on Linux too, but it's much improvement in the lastest version.
Therefore, I think it's reasonable to close this PR.
> % pkg_glob gnometerminal vte
> gnometerminal-2.4.0.1
> vte-0.11.10_1
> %
>
> <<cut from top>>
> 906 vova 115 0 23396K 17440K RUN 0:49 48.93% 48.93%
> gnome-terminal
Here's mine:
40925 mezz 97 0 21084K 5700K select 1:38 0.53% 0.53%
gnome-terminal
I have six tabs and it's building mozilla-thunder right now. My machine
has AthlonXP 2000+ w/ 256mb ram.
> No other active process, no swapping activity, just select some lines of
> text by mouse. Selectin takes about 3 seconds to be displayed in
> terminal window. Gnome-Terminal is completely unusable in my case.
> terminal font is "fixed" (so no any TTF rendering). Terminal have only
> one tab.
>
> I am run 5-CURRENT (fresh cvsup).
>
>> If the problem
>> persists, try building vte with -DWITH_GLX (provided your card supports
>> DRM).
>
> Frankly speaking I do not think that GLX can help me, I have neomagic
> video chip in my notebook and it have no any GLX.
>
> My notebook configuration:
>
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (331.58-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x66a Stepping = 10
>
> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
> real memory = 201261056 (191 MB)
> avail memory = 185790464 (177 MB)
>
> It is sufficient to run on normal speed (usually in parallel):
> - gnome environment (including nautilus)
> - evolution
> - licq (with qt/kde gui)
> - xemacs
> - mplayer or xmms
> - one or two of mozilla/galeon2/firebird/opera(linux) with jvm
> - openoffice or gnumeric
> - a lot of xterms
> - do regular make world && portupgrade -a -x openoffice
>
> There is only two places where speed is too low:
> - gnome-terminal (completely unusable)
> - evolution composer (I have reported this before)
> while change focus between To:/Cc:/Subject lines
> (all other functions, including spell-check work fast enough)
>
> PS: Just check gnome-terminal on much faster machine,
> same problem, I have run in terminal window 'ls -lR /sys/'
> Then try select some lines, it pauses for 1-2 secs (I am sure it is too
> much for this machine)
It doesn't even give me any pause even thought I am building the
mozilla-thunder right now. Also, everything in here machine have been
compiled with the debug.
> <<cut from top>>
> 25830 vova 41 0 21188K 16864K RUN 0:21 34.98% 34.96%
> gnome-terminal
>
> % uname -r
> 4.9-PRERELEASE
Here's 5.1-CURRENT..
> dmesg output:
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (938.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6
>
> Features=0x387f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> real memory = 268349440 (262060K bytes)
> avail memory = 254976000 (249000K bytes)
>
> GLX disabled too.
>
> After enabling GLX ( I have TNT2 here ). I can't notice any delay by
> select text, but CPU usage still too high (for my taste):
>
> <<cut from top>>
> 29468 vova 39 0 19452K 13288K RUN 0:12 11.24% 11.08%
> gnome-terminal
>
> PPS:
> Do anybody use gnome-terminal without GLX ?
I don't use GLX.
Cheers,
Mezz
> May be I need to disable GLX while build some port.
>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54817
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