[Scribus] type input very slow, CPU at 100%

[Craig Bradney]

Hi Jean-Jacques

> Craig Bradney schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 01:58, Servant wrote:
> > 
> >>Using Scribus 1.1.5 Build-ID: 14. February 2004 *-C-T
> >>and am learning it to replace PageMaker, which I've used
> >>for about a decade.  I'm running Slack 9.1, kernel 2.4.23,
> >>a 2.4GHz P4 with 1MB of DDR333.
> >>
> >>When typing, the text output is very slow.  If I type the previous
> >>sentence, I'll be finished before the word 'When' is displayed.
> >>CPU usage goes to 100%, the process load is extremely high,
> >>too, and there is major hard-disk activity going on. Now I have
> >>no idea how Scribus is designed, but would it (by any chance)
> >>be trying to save the file to disk at every key-stroke?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Bruce.. 
> > 
> > you should not be seeing this behaviour at all. Its always been pretty
> > quick and with 1.1.5 you shouldnt see that issue at all. Its not saving
> > to disk every key stroke.
> > 
> > Of course there are many factors involved here, but I'd suggest you
> > upgrade to 1.1.6 or cvs as then we are at least on the same starting
> > point in terms of Scribus. Then we can start to work through the rest.
> > 
> > regards
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> I had also problems while testing and writing code for scribus.
>  From time to time, scribus seem to produce a very high number
> of windows so that the X-server need a very large amount of memory
> and that the system was continuously swapping. This behaviour was
> not reproductible, I have told to Franz that this may be due to
> not initialized variable. An other reason may a peace of overwritten
> memory.

You are right, there is the need for more checking of initialised
variables and memory grabbing/releasing.

I can see there were typing issues before, but with 1.1.6 I actually
cannot believe how much faster it is. Perhaps something was fixed in the
1.1.5-1.1.6 cycle that has fixed this. In testing in the past few days I
was actually amazed myself how quick it was.

As I initially said to Bruce, lets get him onto a recent version and
then let compare and see if we can track this down. 

JJS - thanks for your great work on the text selection and other areas
of late.. very nice.

Craig
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