Aleksandr Jakušev wrote:
> We have Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo), which by > default has vim 7.4 installed. I am trying to compile the latest vim 8.2 > (official release, without later patches). I went the usual way: download > the sources, configure (default settings, only --prefix redefined), make, > make install ... And got the following build: > > ====================================================================== > VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled May 7 2021 15:42:09) > Compiled by xxxxxxxxxxx > Huge version with X11-Athena GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): [...] > ====================================================================== > > The problem with this build is that the GUI version is very slow. For > example, it takes about 6 sec to start. Below are some unnecessary large > timings from the startup profiling: > > ================================================== > 161.380 159.404: expanding arguments > ... > 1344.137 1143.949 1143.949: sourcing .../share/vim/vim82/ftplugin/man.vim > ... > 5302.964 *3903.539*: starting GUI > ================================================== > > Once started, gvim more or less works, until I decide to use the terminal > functionality. This is where the things become really indecent. Forget > using the terminal interactively, a simple ":term ls -l" takes several > minutes to run. Gvim is unresponsive during this time. Once the terminal > window becomes finished, gvim becomes responsive again, but will > periodically hang if you decide to navigate in the finished terminal > window. During gvim hanging, the call stack looks like this: > > ================================================== > PID 2468 - process > TID 2468: > #0 0x00007f3469b62c20 poll - /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so [...] > #16 0x000000000040d6f4 - 1 - .../usr/local/bin/vim > ================================================== > > Which makes me thing that the problem is GUI/X server related. And true, > this does not happen in the console verion of vim. FYI, My X server is one > of the latest versions of vcxsrv running on Win 10. > > I believe that the version of vim 7.4 that comes preinstalled is faster. > Unfortunately, vim 7.4 does not have the terminal functionality to compare > the same things, but its start-up times are much faster, without the lags > above (same vimrc is used). The vim 7.4 is built with -DFEAT_GUI_GTK and > various gtk header folders included. I don't have those headers on my > server, that's why GTK GUI is not used by configure... > > Any advice would be appreciated. You are using an X server running on MS-Windows? I have had nothing but problems with that. I haven't tried for years though. Can you run with a native X server? -- "After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him." - Helen Rowland /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/202105071856.147IuVkk1451257%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
