[help-gv] Performance hit with Kubuntu

[Gary Hodges]

I ran SuSE v9.0 on an Athlon XP 2600+ until recently when I installed 
Kubuntu 5.10.  For the past year I've used gv with great success viewing 
large (~200 MB, ~600 pages) postscript files I produce.  With SuSE 
installed each page would render what seemed to be instantly.  With 
Kubuntu there has been a huge performance hit.  Now it takes ~4 seconds 
to render each page.  I just tested this again on two SuSE v9.0 
machines.   Below are my observed results along with some from other 
machines.

SuSE 9.0; gv v3.5.8
Dual Xeon (around 3GHz) unknown vid:  renders pages instantly
PII w/on-board ATI: Second fastest of all machines at < 1sec to render a 
page

Sarge;  gv v3.6.1
Opteron 244 SMP w/Matrox 400:  ~1 sec to render a page.  Slightly slower 
than the PII.
Athlon MP 2000+ SMP w/Matrox 550:  ~4 seconds to render a page

Kubuntu 5.10;  gv v3.6.1
Athlon XP 2600+ w/Matrox 450:  ~4 seconds to render a page.

Is the performance hit due to the newer version or does SuSE do 
something to speed things up?  How can I get back the performance I had 
with SuSE?  Thanks for your time.

Gary