[lug] gv questions

[Gary Hodges]

Gary Hodges wrote:

> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>
>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>>
>>> Funny thing is as I page through my ps doc I'm wondering if I really 
>>> am remembering how quickly SuSE and gv used to render each page.  I 
>>> feel almost certain it was much faster, but at the same time I don't 
>>> _trust_ my memory as much as I used to, though I think it is as 
>>> _good_ as ever.
>>
>>
>> If I were an admin and you were one of my users complaining I'd 
>> ignore you until you showed me numbers.  So unless you can get an 
>> objective comparison I wouldn't worry about it.  There's too much 
>> that could be causing the difference, including the size of the doc 
>> or the way it was generated between now and what you last looked at 
>> on SuSE.
>
>
> I wish I had a similar machine handy to install SuSE on.  I'll try and 
> find someone in the building who does.  No numbers, unfortunately, but 
> what I can say is I viewed these files for more than a year and never 
> thought it was a PITA.  I viewed them all day yesterday and all day 
> long it sucked.  When I get more evidence I'll post back.  Thanks for 
> your comments.


OK, so now I'm convinced I'm not crazy.  I just tried the same thing on 
two SuSE 9.0 machines.  One was real fast, the other real slow.  The 
machines that is.

Dual Xeon -- Rendered images  instantly.  Like I remember my machine 
doing.  You could hold the <ENTER> key and the images would fly by.

PII 450  --  Was slower than the Xeon machine, but faster than my 
Opteron SMP machine and ~4x faster than my desktop Athlon XP 2600+. 

I'm now convinced SuSE is doing something different.  The question is 
what and how can I get that same performance on my Kubuntu install?

Gary