xchat-gnome performance lags with over 12 channels

[Bryce Harrington]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

Is anyone else seeing this problem?

After joining a bunch of recommended ubuntu channels, I notice xchat-gnome exhibits a noticeable 4-5 second lag when switching from channel to channel. When subscribed to less than 6 channels, switching feels snappy (less than a second), but after joining 8 freenode channels and a couple channels on 3 other servers, I notice this problem.

I did not see this bug already listed in launchpad or on xchat-gnome's bug tracker.

xchat-GNOME 0.16
Ubuntu Feisty
Logging is OFF
Timestamps OFF
Language: English (United States)
Background effects OFF
Character encoding: UTF-8
Scripts: NONE
uname: Linux blackwold 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

A bit more info..

Switching between windows that have not received any content since the last time they were viewed occurs immediately. Lag is only present for windows that have not been viewed in a while.

I haven't confirmed this, but it appears that channels with short names (less than 8-10 characters) lag less often than channels with long names. However, this could be due to differences in how much unread content the channel has.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I don't confirm that, I've around 20 chans used and no lag. Marking low importance, it looks like a minor one

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Issue seems to no longer be present in hardy.