[lug] gv questions -- SOLVED

Gary Hodges Gary.Hodges at noaa.gov
Thu Nov 17 15:30:39 MST 2005


It was the antialias setting.  Damn, I was getting ready to scrap 
Kubuntu for SuSE 10.

Gary

Gary Hodges wrote:

> 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?
>




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