gnome-terminal real slow

[Piotr Smyrak]

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

> > 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.

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

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 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl