Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

[Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>]

On 05/20/2011 08:49 AM, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine.  For a few
> seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as
> expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the point of seeing the
> image being rendered in slow motion, a row at a time if e.g. I scroll
> up or down the page.  Only 20% of RAM (of 3G total) is being used at
> the time, so I'm guessing this could be something to do with the ATI
> video card?
> 
> Other graphics apps open at the same time (e.g. Gimp) do not have such
> problems rendering graphics (albeit not svg).
> 
> Before I post loads of info which may be unnecessary, have you come
> across anything similar and how can I troubleshoot it?
> 
> PS.  I unmasked 0.48.1-r1 because 0.48.0 was even worse.

I don't suppose you have a ton of fonts installed? I've had Inkscape
lock up for like 5 minutes at a time when it was loading the font list
(either at startup or when opening the text dialog).