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hi,

recently my gedit got from working fine to being verry slow.
I tracked it down to a problem with my new choosen theme AluminumAlloy-Volcanic.

It's a problem with the scrollbar, as long as there is no scrollbar, gedit is working fine.
But when the text gets longer and the scrollbar appears it takes more than a full second to enter a new line because gedit is repainting the scrollbar.

When I change to the "simple" theme the problem disappears.
You might think it's a problem with the "AluminumAlloy-Volcanic" theme but I'm getting the same problem with other themes which use graphics on the scrollbar.

And then there is eclipse with the internal editor which does not make any problems at all using the any theme an scrollbar.

So it might be a bug in gedit.
Has anyone encounterd the same problem?

I reallly do not want to use a simple theme just becouse of gedit.

jan

I don't see any problem although I use the AluminumAlloy-Volcanic.
How many ram do you have, and how fast your CPU are?

This problem can be RAM related because of HEAVY graphic display of aluminum-alloy. Track your CPU usage via "top" program and see if it either CPU or RAM. If your CPU is at low percentage then it's definitely lack of RAM

I have a Pentium M 1.7Ghz with 512MB RAM.
OK 512MB is not the world, but it should definitely be enough for runnig X and gedit.

Also the problem occurs only in gedit all other application are running fine (e.g. Gnome terminal with the same scrollbar)

Here some output of top:

Code:

top - 00:36:33 up  8:02,  5 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.18, 0.19

Tasks:  91 total,  1 running,  90 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie

Cpu(s):  1.7% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 98.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si

Mem:    515256k total,  392848k used,  122408k free,    40348k buffers

Swap:  1534672k total,        0k used,  1534672k free,  210136k cached



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

23171 root      5 -10  156m  24m 7416 S  1.0  4.8  0:54.41 Xorg

 6136 root      15  0  5960 2292 1460 S  0.3  0.4  0:12.43 cupsd

23400 jan      15  0 37372  15m 9664 S  0.3  3.0  0:05.83 gnome-terminal

    1 root      16  0  1596  540  472 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.54 init

    2 root      34  19    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0

    3 root      10  -5    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.19 events/0

    4 root      11  -5    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 khelper

As you see your CPU is only 1.7%, which is fine on stand-by mode. Run your gedit and check if actually gedit is taking resources. Maybe is not

ok, while pressing enter in gedit the cpu load is increasing drastically:

Code:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

 6884 root      6 -10 52816  32m 6976 S 53.2  6.4  2:08.98 Xorg

 7258 jan      18  0 35188  18m  11m R 42.3  3.7  0:47.77 gedit

 7195 jan      15  0  101m  32m  14m S  2.0  6.5  0:09.81 firefox-bin

 7246 jan      16  0 36500  13m 9192 R  1.7  2.7  0:04.00 gnome-terminal

    1 root      16  0  1596  536  472 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.53 init

    2 root      34  19    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0

    3 root      10  -5    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.03 events/0

    4 root      11  -5    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 khelper

    5 root      10  -5    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 kthread

Still my CPU should not be to slow to run gedit.
Especially since other applications are runnig fine.

jan

Quote:

Originally posted by janux
42.3 3.7 0:47.77 gedit

I don't know. change metacity probably
Mine is such:

Code:

 3195 root      15  0  160m  28m 142m S  6.0  3.2  29:33.02 Xorg

 3500 slackerl  15  0 63276  33m  26m S  1.7  3.8  30:11.54 amule

 3406 slackerl  15  0 18312  11m  15m S  1.0  1.3  0:11.34 wnck-applet

 3347 slackerl  15  0 13644 9396  11m S  0.7  1.0  0:17.35 metacity

 3351 slackerl  15  0 23592  15m  17m S  0.3  1.7  0:06.18 gnome-panel

 3412 slackerl  16  0 18148  11m  14m S  0.3  1.3  0:01.95 gnome-keyboard-

25881 slackerl  15  0 99.0m  30m  29m S  0.3  3.4  0:04.00 firefox-bin

25899 slackerl  15  0 27424  10m  16m S  0.3  1.2  0:00.60 gnome-terminal

25906 slackerl  15  0 23528  14m  19m S  0.3  1.6  0:00.75 gedit

    1 root      16  0  1812  656 1600 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.72 init

As you see gedit takes only 0.3% of CPU