[Lazarus] Ubuntu 9.04 (Lazarus too slow)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Eduardo Lopez wrote:
> Hi Leonardo:
> 
> I run Lazarus 0.9.27 in Ubuntu 9.04 without problem (GTK2). But i run 
> Windows XP in VirtualBox and some applications are very slow and take 
> the CPU to 100%.
> 
> I tried VMPlayer and it works very well.  I think that there are some 
> bugs in VirtualBox that remains from old versions.
> 
> Try to do the same with VMPlayer (it's free). You can create a VM with 
> http://www.easyvmx.com/ and then install the O.S.

I'm not fully up-to-date with versions etc. but what I've seen is that 
under some circumstances Lazarus- particularly with gtk2- is 
unreasonably slow running over a remote (i.e. networked) X session. 
Speed to a local X session and remotely using VNC is acceptable.

I've recently also noticed that recent versions of Mozilla are also slow 
over remote X but acceptable locally or using VNC. By "slow" I mean 
"glacial".

I've not attempted to raise this as a Mozilla bug or with the distro 
(Debian). Frankly they're both so self-absorbed in their own problems 
I'd not know where to start.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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