long line breaks scrollback

[Patrick Byrne]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I ran a program which wrote a stdout line of ~10000 characters. The line is emitted but scrollback becomes extremely slow. The screen grays out and it takes ~10 sec to page down.

The program I was running was 'pi' - a sample program with the dmd D compiler, though the problem appears to be with gnome-terminal since the 'pi' program has already finished, it is just the output that is handled extremely slowly in the terminal window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 13 14:38:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report Patrick, could you take an screenshot of the issue? do you get the same with Terminator or xterm? Thanks.

[Patrick Byrne (pjlbyrne)]

2009/11/17 Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>:
> thanks for the report Patrick

Sure thing Pedro - sorry for the long delay in replying.

> could you take an screenshot of the issue?

What for? it is just a screen-full of the digits of pi, grayed out.
Attached anyway.

> do you get the same with Terminator or xterm? Thanks.

No, it doesn't happen with either xterm or terminator, there is no
slowdown at all.

Cheers
Patrick

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Patrick Byrne (pjlbyrne)]

It looks okay at the moment. You could close this bug for my money.

Thanks for the follow-up.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you, closing the bug.