I experience the same issue. After system boot, everything is speedy. Opening some treminals (3-5) with maybe 5-10 tabs each, the system gets very sluggish. Only a few of them actually has a lot of output (tail log files, and debug output from programs).
Just bought an Intel SSD disk, so this should not be a disk IO issue. gnome-termimal process uses 400MiB Memory. Killing gnome-terminal makes the system fast again. Eveything is slow, scrolling in Firefox, changing tabs, even writing in this text field is slow. Running Ubuntu 12.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423825 Title: gnome-terminal is sluggish when scrolling Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal When using vi in gnome-terminal, scrolling one line down takes about one second, which is much too long. This is most apparent when the window is fullscreen. Also happens when using less. xterm does not have these problems. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-terminal Uname: Linux 2.6.30-020630rc5-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/423825/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
