[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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