[Thuban-list] thuban very slow on low-end machine

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:24:58AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Tracy Love said:
> > I dont mean to be rude but 150mhz isnt going to be fast with any gis work.
> 
> No offense taken, I know the machine is (very) low-end, but some reactions
> just don't seem normal to me.

We did not test it on such a machine, yet
and Thuban is also not optimised for speed so far.

I'be been running Thunban on a Pentium II 200Mhz also with 120MB
booting from a Free Software Knoppix-CD 
and it was a bit slow, but usable.

> For example: when I open Thuban, without any maps loaded, yet, and I then
> just move my mouse pointer back and forth over the Thuban screen, CPU
> usage goes up to over 90%. As a comparison, doing the same in Sketch or
> Mozilla, never pushes CPU over 30%.

In any way thanks for the report.
Can you give us more details about the system and about the version
of Thuban and the library you are using ( check the About dialog for
a start)?
It would be also interesting to see the memory consumption.

> Also, if I understand correctly Thuban is supposed to be a viewer, not a GIS.

Correct.