This is not update-manager specific. Attached is a tiny pygtk app that demos the problem. It takes 1.4s to run on my ati card on maverick and up to 3s on my nvidia card (with nouveau).
** Attachment added: "Example script" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52637803/lala.py ** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => cairo (Ubuntu) -- libcairo2 1.9.10 makes Ubuntu 10.10 unusably slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595845 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs