ports/54817: After some time of work text selection in gnome_terminal is too long

Tue Oct 14 00:50:20 PDT 2003

The following reply was made to PR ports/54817; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova at fbsd.ru>
To: gnats <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/54817: After some time of work text selection in
	gnome_terminal is too long
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:49:44 +0400

 =F7 =D7=D4, 14.10.2003, =D7 07:26, Joe Marcus Clarke =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
 > Synopsis: After some time of work text selection in gnome_terminal is too=
  long
 >=20
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: marcus
 > State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 13 20:26:18 PDT 2003
 > State-Changed-Why:=20
 > gnome-terminal 2.4.x with vte 0.11.x has been greatly improved. =20

 Nothing changed about 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

 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 D=
 RM).

 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 =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x66a  Stepping =3D 10
 =20
 Features=3D0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM=
 OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
 real memory  =3D 201261056 (191 MB)
 avail memory =3D 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)

 <<cut from top>>
 25830 vova      41   0 21188K 16864K RUN      0:21 34.98% 34.96%
 gnome-terminal

 % uname -r
 4.9-PRERELEASE

 dmesg output:
 CPU: Intel Pentium III (938.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x686  Stepping =3D 6

 Features=3D0x387f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM=
 OV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
 real memory  =3D 268349440 (262060K bytes)
 avail memory =3D 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 ?
   May be I need to disable GLX while build some port.

 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D54817

 --=20
 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
 SWsoft Inc.