Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:49:00 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities. Message-ID: <1206766140.1755.12.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <1206763120.2392.137.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1206757770.1755.5.camel@jill.exit.com> <1206763120.2392.137.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:58 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:29 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > > I recently upgraded to gnome 2.22 from 2.20. I use evolution heavily > > and despite the talk of speed improvements in 2.22, on the contrary I > > see it being _much_ slower, on the order of half as fast. This is > > running on FreeBSD 6.2-stable (circa Jan 1 2008) on amd64. Nothing else > > seems particularly slower, just evolution. In particular I see redraws > > go very slowly, redrawing part, pausing, redrawing more, pausing, etc. > > Others have reported this, but I don't see it. I'm on RELENG_7 with an > nVidia graphics card driven by nvidia. My amd64 machine also has an > nVidia card driven by nv. Both cards support render. Assuming your > card supports render, you could try removing ltasneededhack from evo's > Makefile, then rebuild it. That's really the biggest change we have > from stock Evo. I don't see how that could cause redraw problems. Well, I _am_ running it remotely, not locally, so I suppose that could make a difference. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with the card, since it's the same regardless of where the X server is. > This stack is useless. You'll need to rebuild at least gnome-panel with > debugging symbols, and probably libc and libpthread as well. Then, > run /usr/local/libexec/clock-applet in gdb, add the applet to the panel, > and get a back trace when it crashes. I was afraid of that. If it annoys me too much I'll do this. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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