Vinagre SSH session eats too much X resources

[Gilles Gagniard]

Binary package hint: vinagre

OS : Ubuntu Karmic (patches are up-to-date)

There is a huge performance related bug in Vinagre for SSH session terminals.

After such a session has been opened, general drawing speed is very slow in the embedded terminal : a simple thing such as a 'top' lags noticeably at each screen refresh. Worse, launching a command which outputs continuously on the standard output completely blocks the X server, which becomes unresponsive (ie. whole desktop is frozen) until vinagre is killed. It probably means that vinagre is flooding the X server with drawing commands ....

Connecting to the same remote servers and launching the same commands from a "standard" gnome terminal works perfectly, and since vinagre uses (I think) the same VTE widget, there must be something fishy going on in vinagre itself.

There is a very interesting workaround for this bug : if the vinagre window is unmaximised and then maximised again, the slow down completely disappears ! The console behaves perfectly like a standard gnome terminal after that.

In case it would be related to a graphic driver problem, it's an Intel Q35 chipset (using the free intel driver shipped with karmic).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 28 10:02:31 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
Package: vinagre 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: vinagre
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[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.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Peter Thomassen (mail-peter-thomassen)]

I am using Vinagre 3.10.2-0ubuntu1 (trusty) and am still experiencing this issue.