Re: gEDA-user: PCB is extremely slow

[Jakub Piotr CÅapa <jpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall Nortman wrote:
> > > > I am editing Ronja Twister
> > > > http://ronja.twibright.com/schematics/twister.pcb
> > > > And it sometimes takes 30 seconds to redraw (during which PCB doesn't
> > > > react). My machine has 1500MHz CPU and 0.5GB of RAM and nothing
> > > > CPU intensive is running there besides.
>
> I noticed, after upgrading from an older non-GTK version to a CVS
> snapshot from several weeks ago (using GTK+), that sometimes PCB gets
> into a funny state where redraws are impossibly slow, as you describe.
> After some experimentation I determined that this is influenced by
> *other windows* being open on the same desktop, in particular other
> maximized windows.

I have a similar problem with Firefox 1.5b. I guess these are X server 
side memory leaks (clients can allocate images and other stuff inside 
the server).

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr CÅapa