From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QNvym-0002NQ-Lt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 May 2011 23:53:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A941E0384; Sat, 21 May 2011 23:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12ADBE0384 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 23:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.6] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D5B937AD8 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 19:51:46 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1306021906; bh=J3OEtxnx3tNU0E/D6CDXtkn0OKAacxgB/F5BMNg24Zs=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=fb83wVaNRj0xhakEv4aiFBGqeJ6g3Q2/ZGGMdeUfFBbo8PVndFaWU6oja6vTmr4QZ vhcY2hl9gaoRfsJHUhw3LJoUuw4RaIWc0WJK9r9SFDPZEsDrIOCeDlGhaKZwsOgZS/ p/qca5sjaCARDadPbx+a6irflgKSf2dMSu6cBcNw= Message-ID: <4DD85011.4060009@orlitzky.com> Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 19:51:45 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110510 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5f8c1e5e8728adc1d69cef61aee38ac0 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).