On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:07, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > I'm not sure what release of the kernel or X server you're running, but I 2.4.20 4.3.0-63 Both from SuSE. > First thing to do is have a 'vmstat' or 'top' or something running while you > re-create the problem, and see what exactly the system is busy doing. If > you're seeing a lot of paging and/or disk I/O during your pauses, the problem > is probably not GTK (at least not directly). Nope, it's really the application, e.g. Ximian or eclipse which are terrible slow. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list