Bug 117170
| Summary: | ggv is too slow | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tethys <sta040> |
| Component: | ggv | Assignee: | Jonathan Blandford <jrb> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | ddumas, robert |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-03-05 01:45:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Interesting, my laptop is very slow - Celeron 700MHz with 192MB RAM and ggv is starting under 2 seconds and under 1 second from the cache. [My system is FC1 without updates, same ggv as yours] I have no obvious speed problems w/ GGV. Is anything else slow on your system? Regardless of which, I'm not going to remove ggv for gv. :-) No, I wasn't expecting you to remove ggv. But I would appreciate looking into what's causing it to be *so* much slower than plain gv. Probably not the sole cause of the problem, but does it really need to be linked against libesd or libaudiofile, for example? I may not have the fastest machine in the world (a PIII/550), but other apps are generally OK. It's just ggv that's bordering on unusably slow. Yes, it does need to link against those for a number of reasons. I don't know why it's slow. it's not particularly slow for me. Are you loading it with a file? Okay - I think I've found the problem. Looks like GGV is being too agressive w/ its recently-used files. If you move ~/.recently-used out of the way, does it start much faster? Yep, that certainly seems to help. Cool. Submitted a patch upstream. We should get this fixed by FC2. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: FC1 no longer ships with a sane PostScript viewer. With the upgrade from RH9 to FC1, gv disappeared, to be replaced with ggv. While I agree with, and fully support the goal of having a consistent user interface across apps, it shouldn't be at the expense of usability. Where gv used to launch in under a second, ggv takes over 10 seconds from cold, and even from cache takes 5s. That's just not acceptable performance, and severely limits its usefulness. I don't know if this is just a GTK-2 thing -- previous versions of ggv (e.g., 1.0.1 from RH7.2) launched much quicker. Other GTK-2 apps are a bit sluggish perhaps, but not to the same extent as ggv. Perhaps the following comparison may shed some light on the problem: lazarus:~% cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) lazarus:~% rpm -q ggv ggv-1.0.1-4 lazarus:~% ldd /usr/bin/ggv | wc -l 22 leto:~% cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) leto:~% rpm -q ggv ggv-2.4.0.1-1 leto:~% ldd /usr/bin/ggv | wc -l 53 Whatever the reason, though, I don't particularly care. Please either fix it, or revert to using gv until ggv can be brought up to speed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ggv-2.4.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch ggv 2. Wait... Go grab a drink 3. Wait some more. You get the idea... Additional info: