Re: gnome-terminal hogging CPU ?

["Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

I see that "horsepower" is certainly not an issue. You also state that
this is a "new" problem on your system.  

What to do???

Maybe retreating to gnome-terminal-2.11.3 might shed some light on the
source of the problem. If "we" are lucky enough to have the problem "go
away", that would give the gnome-terminal folks a good place to start.

I did a quick goggle-search and found that excessive CPU usage by
gnome-terminal is a recurring problem.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:38 -0400, John Affleck wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> > Hmm.... 
> > 
> > (1) What are the characteristics of your hardware platform?
> 
> Dual 1.7Ghz Xeon, 2G ram, Matrox G400, Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra 160 w/
> 18G-ish local storage.
> 
> > (2) Which "theme" are you using?
> 
> Clearlooks.
> 
> > (3) What was the performance like with earlier versions of GNOME?
> 
> Never seen any problems.  gnome-terminal was always up there in terms
> of utilization, but certainly not as bad as it is now.
> 
> > I see that gnome-terminal is a single-process that controls all of
> > the terminal windows that are open.  I also see a CPU usage "spike",
> > albeit short in duration [on my system], when a new window/tab is
> > opened.
> 
> This may have been an isolated incident, possibly related to something
> bad that screen was doing.  Things seem to be behaving more sanely
> now.. 
> 
> Ah well, that's what happens when I panic before having my coffee..
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	John A.
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