Re: gEDA-user: PCB is extremely slow

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:40:28PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Charlls Quarra wrote:
> > --- Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Do you have also this problem? Is it possible to
> >>optimize PCB somehow
> >>to not grind down this way? 
> >
> >
> >Sure there is such an optimization. It's called
> >"dropping the GTK port, and continuing the good ol'
> >Xaw port"
> 
> on my 400 MHz ultra sparc ii (Ultra/10), its more on the order of a 
> second.  I'm suprised it is that slow for you, but this is not the first 
> report of it being much slower on a machine where it should be fast.
> 
> Can you run top or something and check memory usage when PCB is running 
> slow?
> 
> What video card do you have?

Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device

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