Re: gnome-terminal hogging CPU ?

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

Also, maybe the following bugs can shed some light on the performance
issues:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314328 (vte)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311855 (vte)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163840 (gnome-terminal)

Paul

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:06 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
>