On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:00 +0100, michalwd1979 wrote: > Hello, > After putting some big components (ICs in 200pin TQFP) on my board > I've noticed that PCB slowed down drastically. Now it takes over 2-3 > seconds to redraw a component in different place after moving. I've > checked system load with top and it seems that X server uses 100% CPU > at that time not PCB. Further tests showed that even moving entire PCB > window is very slow. I would guess that my system is too slow - but > why only with PCB? All other apps (gimp, gschem, terminal, charts from > matplotlib ect.) moves beautifully even with transparency. What is so > special in PCB window? Is there anything I can do to improve this?
If you're not already using a recent CVS version of PCB, try that, and report back if it is faster. I fixed a bug a few weeks back relating to drawing when we shouldn't, which could be relevant. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
