gnome-terminal real slow

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru>
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:52:19 +0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at 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.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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