Hi, Example of gnome-terminal performance: I'm unpacking an archive with lots of small files in verbose mode, which results in lots of terminal output. While this is going on, I'm watching CPU usage in top: X+gnome-terminal - 80-90% (typical) tar+gzip - 8- 9% (typical) So, the gnome-terminal is hijacking most of my CPU cycles (indirectly via X), making the unpacking go many times slower than it should, and X responsiveness sucks while this is going on. The same can be observed by running other commands which produce much terminal output. For instance, running find -print in a large directory tree takes much longer to complete in gnome-terminal, than other terms. Xterm is extremely fast in comparison (with Xft). Konsole beats the gnome-terminal easily, too. Something is wrong. Arg! =) The Gnome project is great, gnome-terminal is great _feature-wise_, but its speed is a total shame. Searching the net gives me indications that this problem has existed for a while too, it was the same in FC1, and I am disappointed that it hasn't really improved in FC2/Gnome2.6. Similar experiences ? Am I wrong ? Comments ? Øyvind -- < Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst@xxxxxxxxxx> < University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics < http://www.stegard.net/ < "If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished."
