6:17 - open a .svg file to change it. Started Eric's script Working in fullscreen 6:37 - noticed some pan slowdown 6:41 - real slowdown in drawing the tabs of the fill/stroke form. They paint visibly 6:43 - doc props form also drawing slow 6:48 - HUGE panning slowdown. Now I must drag across half a screen to pan at all. 6:50 - Selecting is painfully slow. I cannot drag things around smoothly. (top says %MEM 67.8 Xorg) 6:59 - fill dialog does not respond. Cannot choose solid fill. (works from color swatches on bottom of screen) (64.2 = Xorg) 7:02 - really horrible now. I want to restart, but will push on. I wonder if I shouldn't try screencast this in some way... 7:04 - really bad now Captured top: scripts:$ top top - 07:04:25 up 9 days, 19:33, 1 user, load average: 1.35, 1.52, 1.27 Tasks: 148 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie Cpu(s): 22.3% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1036096k total, 1025900k used, 10196k free, 8804k buffers Swap: 1052248k total, 863316k used, 188932k free, 93888k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7030 root 15 0 1164m 641m 3508 S 20.5 63.4 85:34.53 Xorg 7203 donn 15 0 30968 11m 9860 S 1.0 1.1 0:19.62 yakuake 4815 donn 15 0 6036 2968 756 S 0.7 0.3 141:14.02 gam_server 7145 donn 16 0 29924 10m 9244 S 0.3 1.1 0:47.49 kwin 7162 donn 15 0 37476 13m 10m S 0.3 1.3 2:31.60 kicker 7230 donn 15 0 34408 8772 7944 S 0.3 0.8 0:02.84 knotify 7315 donn 15 0 102m 22m 12m S 0.3 2.3 3:18.75 kmail 6272 donn 16 0 48852 15m 12m S 0.3 1.6 0:05.88 kate 1 root 16 0 1568 436 416 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.41 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 6:09.90 ksoftirqd/0 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.79 events/0 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.36 kblockd/0 9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 171 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 170 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:27.53 kswapd0 760 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 1774 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0 1775 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_hotplug/0 1896 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 1996 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.05 kjournald 2226 root 12 -4 2432 316 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.17 udevd 07:17 - I have to stop and restart it's too slow to use. top - 07:17:02 up 9 days, 19:46, 1 user, load average: 0.63, 0.89, 1.17 Tasks: 148 total, 1 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie Cpu(s): 26.9% us, 5.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 66.1% id, 1.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.3% si Mem: 1036096k total, 1024280k used, 11816k free, 7244k buffers Swap: 1052248k total, 1052236k used, 12k free, 81952k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7030 root 15 0 1352m 641m 3476 S 27.0 63.4 89:45.65 Xorg 6272 donn 15 0 48852 16m 12m S 1.3 1.6 0:06.27 kate 31804 donn 15 0 155m 103m 14m S 1.3 10.2 6:22.48 inkscape 4815 donn 15 0 6036 2968 756 S 1.0 0.3 141:20.19 gam_server 7145 donn 15 0 29924 10m 9244 S 0.7 1.1 0:48.27 kwin 7162 donn 15 0 37476 13m 10m S 0.7 1.3 2:32.65 kicker 4484 root 16 0 1620 456 412 S 0.3 0.0 0:04.24 rupsd 526 donn 16 0 2200 1148 856 R 0.3 0.1 0:02.10 top 1 root 16 0 1568 436 416 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.41 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 6:09.90 ksoftirqd/0 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.80 events/0 5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.36 kblockd/0 9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid I counted (slowly) to 40 (about 40 seconds) after closing Ink. That's how long my system froze before I got any response back.