Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:13:11 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: very poor performance in 2.5.66[-mm1] |
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, David Mansfield wrote:
> Yes. gnome-terminal is godawful slow on RHAT 8.0 (it does Xrender > alpha-channel crap for every character to get the anti-aliasing). But I > think the problem has to do with the pipe/pty wakeups. After 'ls' > writes a line to the pty, it seems as though the gnome-terminal is being > woken up (even though 'ls' has more to write), it's generating the > Xrender X-command and sending it to X. X is waking up and rendering it > (which forces a complete update of the screen).
this is a known bug in vte, fixed in the rawhide vte package. (you might need to upgrade other packages as well.) Eg. try another, non-gnome-vte based terminal, such as xterm or konsole, it wont show this problem.
Ingo
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