On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:32:04 +0000
segv@netctl.net wrote:

> Hi, I've just installed NetBSD-3.0-RELEASE and build a few GTK2 applications
> from current pkgsrc. I noticed a very poor performance with GTK2 applications,
> for example vim-gtk2, resising a window takes about 3-4 seconds for everything
> to be redrawn, maximising a window takes even longer about 6 seconds and X
> server consumes a large amount of CPU time. Acceleration on framebuffer is
> enabled.
> 
> Booting NetBSD-3.99.7 which was installed on the second hard disk on 18 Aug
> 2005 and there is no delay when resizing windows in GTK2 applications, i.e.
> everything is performing very well. It's the same machine, same hardware, just
> a different NetBSD version.
> 
> I'm going to copy packages from NetBSD-3.99.7 and install them on NetBSD-3.0
> and see if that makes a difference, in case it's the problem with the latest
> version of GTK2. But I have a strong feeling it's something to do with
> NetBSD-3.0
> 
> Hence my question: does anyone know why NetBSD-3.0 performs so poorly? What
> should I do to resolve this?
> 
> If you need more info, i.e. Xserver log files, etc. let me know.

OK. I copied packages from 3.99.7 and everything is fast now again. So looks
like it has something to do with GTK2?? It seems gtk2+-2.8.10 is very slow on
NetBSD sparc64. What could they have done to it that degrades performance so
dramatically???