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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:26:45 +0200
From:      Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome-terminal real slow
Message-ID:  <20040429202645.6f81e2d6@beth.poprostu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20040429160506.C89655D08@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <1083228738.878.1.camel@localhost> <20040429160506.C89655D08@ptavv.es.net>

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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:05:06 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
 wrote:

> > From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:52:19 +0400
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
> > 
> > =F7 =D3=CF=CF=C2=DD=C5=CE=C9=C9 =D3=D2, 2004-04-28 11:16 +0000,
> > Jens Rehsac= k =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
> > 
> > > maybe one of you can gave me a hint why my gnome-terminal is
> > > reacting real (and I mean waiting for a keystroke around 20
> > > seconds) slow after I updated to Gnome 2.6.
> > 
> > Me too !
> > 
> > Gnome-terminal slow for me too. Especially on cut&paste mouse
> > selection.
> > 
> > I have vte compiled without GL support.
> 
> I second the motion. It seems that with every update to vte,
> gnome-terminal just gets slower. I do a select operation and watch
> the CPU peg for several seconds. I have seen it take over 10
> seconds of 95% CPU on a 1 GHz P3 to do the select. (Paste has
> never shown any problem.)
> 
> My main question is whether this is FreeBSD specific or if it
> happens on Linux boxes, as well.
> 
> I really should do some profiling, but it seems intermittent and
> seems more likely to happen when the terminal has been up for a
> while. I suspect it is linked to the length of the scroll-back
> buffer. I use VERY long ones, usually over 4000 lines.

This was my guess also. And I also face this.

-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak@heron.pl



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