Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 04:11:32 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:24:55 +0200 > > Jan Schrewe <jschrewe at googlemail.com> dijo: > > You can always switch to full speed with: "cpufreq-selector -g > > performance" "cpufreq-selector -g ondemand" switches back to powersaving > > mode (which is usually a good idea for a laptop). > > The "performance" command worked, although I am now at 2 GHz always. > Scribus is a slight bit faster, but not remarkably. Some things are > quite a bit faster - selecting/deselecting an object for example. Other > things are changed very little, if at all, like grouping/ungrouping > objects. And video redisplay remains the same slow redraw speed. That > probably is related to the video chip, though. > > If my CPU is now running at the max all the time and Scribus remains > slow, then it may be that I just need to get a faster computer. Still, > this computer is not that far out of date. It's hard to believe that my > favorite program needs a CPU > 2 GHz.
Which means that there is another problem and that it's not the CPU speed (which fits with scribus not using a lot of CPU in top). I rather doubt that usind a faster computer is going to help. Which system are you using? And is it self compiled or installed from a package?
