Imported from FreeBSD GNATS (ports/54817):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54817

% pkg_glob gnometerminal
gnometerminal-2.2.2
%

open gnometerminal (single tab).

% su
# cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird
# make 
...
#

by top process in state RUN while it happens
by strace I can't see someting special.

If gnometerminal live longer it becames slower and slower.

try to select some text - see delay between beginning of selection and
finish (about 1/2 sec for 1Gz Pentium III)

Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gnome 
Responsible-Changed-By: arved 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 28 02:00:16 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=54817 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: marcus 
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 13 20:26:18 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
gnome-terminal 2.4.x with vte 0.11.x has been greatly improved.  If the 
problem 
persists, try building vte with -DWITH_GLX (provided your card supports 
DRM). 
 
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 Nothing changed about PR:
 
 % pkg_glob gnometerminal vte
 gnometerminal-2.4.0.1
 vte-0.11.10_1
 %
 
 <<cut from top>>
 906 vova     115    0 23396K 17440K RUN      0:49 48.93% 48.93%
 gnome-terminal
 
 No other active process, no swapping activity, just select some lines of
 text by mouse. Selectin takes about 3 seconds to be displayed in
 terminal window. Gnome-Terminal is completely unusable in my case.
 terminal font is "fixed" (so no any TTF rendering). Terminal have only
 one tab.
 
 I am run 5-CURRENT (fresh cvsup).
 
 > If the problem
 > persists, try building vte with -DWITH_GLX (provided your card supports 
DRM).
 
 Frankly speaking I do not think that GLX can help me, I have neomagic
 video chip in my notebook and it have no any GLX.
 
 My notebook configuration:
 
 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (331.58-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x66a  Stepping 
 Features=3D0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
 real memory  =3D 201261056 (191 MB)
 avail memory =3D 185790464 (177 MB)
 
 It is sufficient to run on normal speed (usually in parallel):
  - gnome environment (including nautilus)
  - evolution
  - licq (with qt/kde gui)
  - xemacs
  - mplayer or xmms
  - one or two of mozilla/galeon2/firebird/opera(linux) with jvm
  - openoffice or gnumeric
  - a lot of xterms
  - do regular make world && portupgrade -a -x openoffice
 
 There is only two places where speed is too low:
   - gnome-terminal (completely unusable)
   - evolution composer (I have reported this before)
         while change focus between To:/Cc:/Subject lines
         (all other functions, including spell-check work fast enough)
 
 PS: Just check gnome-terminal on much faster machine,
 same problem, I have run in terminal window 'ls -lR /sys/'
 Then try select some lines, it pauses for 1-2 secs (I am sure it is too
 much for this machine)
 
 <<cut from top>>
 25830 vova      41   0 21188K 16864K RUN      0:21 34.98% 34.96%
 gnome-terminal
 
 % uname -r
 4.9-PRERELEASE
 
 dmesg output:
 CPU: Intel Pentium III (938.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x686  Stepping =3D 6
 
 Features=3D0x387f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
 OV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
 real memory  =3D 268349440 (262060K bytes)
 avail memory =3D 254976000 (249000K bytes)
 
 GLX disabled too.
 
 After enabling GLX ( I have TNT2 here ). I can't notice any delay by
 select text, but CPU usage still too high (for my taste):
 
 <<cut from top>>
 29468 vova      39   0 19452K 13288K RUN      0:12 11.24% 11.08%
 gnome-terminal
 
 PPS:
   Do anybody use gnome-terminal without GLX ?
   May be I need to disable GLX while build some port.
 
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From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>

Well, I still think you should contract to the Gnome team. Those issues are 
known on Linux too, but it's much improvement in the lastest version. 
Therefore, I think it's reasonable to close this PR.

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