On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 19:19, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > So, > an error occurs (xrun, for example), jack prints it out,gnome-terminal > is really slow, which causes another error (the printf and everything it > calls is running realtime, right?), which is printed by jack and so on > and so forth (or at least I think that is what is happening). The whole > machine slows down to a crawl. Running jack from an xterm significantly > changes the behavior for the better. And yes, it is the fault of > (mainly) antialiasing, turning it off makes the fonts really ugly but > performance is back to something halfway decent. > > I noticed because I was looking at the cpu meter applet and saw big > spikes that where happening at the same time as the terminal scrolls! What video hardware and motherboard are you using? Does the problem go away if you set Option "NoAccel" in the "Device" section of XF86Config? Lee
