On 2/15/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:

The thing : Inkscape 0.45 gets gradually slower and less responsive over a
period of time.

I've been trying to diagnose a similar (but different) performance problem lately on my machine. In my case the system (particularly GTK apps) are agonizingly slow every 3rd or 4th time I boot up. It's completely random, no software changes, no hardware or peripheral changes but every 3rd or 4th time I boot up everything runs slowly.

I have found a couple of very small differences in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log files from fast to slow boots, but nothing that provides an earth shattering difference. I've been having this problem for months now.

One thing that was mentioned to me in the many threads I've started on ubuntuforums.org to try and solve the problem is that performance degradation over time (during the same session) can sometimes be attributed to a memory leak. This is likely not attributable to Inkscape but possibly to some other application or driver. Have you changed/installed anything that made the problem start happening?