Re: [help-gv] Performance hit -- SOLVED

[Gary Hodges]

I discovered today that with the antialias setting set to FALSE things 
work as I was accustomed to. 

Gary

Gary Hodges wrote:

> 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