Re: Extreme slowdown on Debian stable

[Germán Arias]

Hi

El vie, 12-06-2015 a las 15:11 +0200, Andrea D'Amore escribió:
> Hello,
> I installed Gorm and ProjectCenter on a Debian stable in order to try
> a little development with GNUstep. I got a working setup with a
> peculiar problem: the interaction in file dialogs is _extremely_ slow,
> to the point of being unbearable.
> 
> For instance clicking any folder in the column views of the
> ProjectCenter save file dialog when creating a new project is received
> and reacted after tens of seconds (say, 20). Even keystroke, for
> typing in a file name, shows the same behavior.
> 
> The system load is minimal, even between an event (key or mouse) and
> its effects on the UI. I figure there's some (severe) message passing
> slowdown somewhere, because the events are eventually parsed but I've
> no clue about how to debug this.
> 
> Has anyone experienced the same odd behavior?
> Should I install from source?
> I tried to avoid mixing system packages with non APT managed software
> and installing in a machine local prefix would mean recompile every
> program using GNustep.
> 
> Is there a system you'd recommend over the other ones in order to have
> an updated GNUstep environment (say easily following stable releases)?
> 
> The version numbers of installed packages are:
> 
>     Gorm 1.2.20
>     ProjectCenter 0.6.1
>     gnustep-make 2.6.6
>     gnustep-base 1.24.7
>     gnustep-gui 0.24.0
>     gnustep-back 0.24.0
> 
> 
> Regards
> 

I can see these are the official gnustep packages for debian. What
backend are you using? The recommended backend is cairo (I suppose the
package gnustep-back0.24-cairo). After install it check if gnustep is
really using it. Run in a shell "defaults read NSGlobalDomain
GSBackend". If not set it with "defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend
cairo".

You can also try the packages of Philippe. But these are for Wheezy, not
sure if can work on Jessie:

http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/packages/wheezy/

Hope this help.

Germán