Changing the jre from open-jdk to sun's one seems to make it a little faster... so that's good. I'm happy for now
2010/2/24 Todd Volkert <[email protected]> > Hi Mathias, > > I run Fedora 12 at work, and it's lighting fast on that machine (faster > than I've seen on any other machine, including XP and OS X). Yet at home > running Fedora 13 in a virtual machine, it's much slower. So in my case the > performance seems more tied to the graphics driver (native Nvidia vs > virtualized) than the OS or anything else. > > That being said, it sounds like your experience is much slower than > normal. Since you're running Ubuntu, are you running Sun's plugin, or are > you running the IcedTea plugin? If Sun's, what JVM is it? And finally, > what graphics driver are you using -- the generic Ubuntu one or a > vendor-specific proprietary one? > > Thanks, > -T > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Ilya Dyoshin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Mathias, >> >> Well you see here a common problem of JAVA Applets in linux - they are >> terribly slow! >> >> Regards, >> >> Ilya Dyoshin >> >> 2010/2/24 Mathias Versichele <[email protected]> >> >> Just a general question about how pivot compares to other gui environments >>> in terms of performance. For example, my current GUI exists of one frame >>> ('child window') containing a menubar, 3 nested splitpanes, and some smaller >>> components like an activity-indicator and -meter, but I already have the >>> feeling that everything gets really slow. The resizing of the window is >>> erratic, moving the window lags by almost half a second. I really like pivot >>> for its ease of use and portability, but I'd like a really powerful and >>> responsive gui... Is this normal behaviour ? >>> >>> Here are my specs: >>> >>> CPU:Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz GPU:ATI Technologies Inc M22 >>> [Mobility Radeon X300] >>> 1gb of ram >>> running Kubuntu 9.10 >>> >>> Regards >>> -- >>> Mathias Versichele >>> Bio-ir milieutechnologie / Msc. geografie >>> Oudburgstraat 16 >>> 9240 Zele >>> 0485/16.07.08 >>> >> >> > -- Mathias Versichele Bio-ir milieutechnologie / Msc. geografie Oudburgstraat 16 9240 Zele 0485/16.07.08
