Bug#471239: freecol: GUI is really slow

[Jiří Paleček]

Package: freecol
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

the GUI of freecol is painfully slow. This includes moving units and cargo  
in Europe, displaying dialogs (eg. colony dialog), displaying the  
foot/wheel/sextant markers while issuing the "goto" command and displaying  
the green focus marker, which all take several seconds. During that time,  
top shows excessive amount of context switches (tens of thousands per  
seconds).

Freecol runs fine on the same machine running windows.

Regards
     Jiri Palecek


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3-test (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL  
set to cs_CZ)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freecol depends on:
ii  java-wrappers          0.1.4             wrappers for java executables
ii  libhiglayout-java      1.0-1             An easy-to-use layout manager  
for
ii  libwoodstox-java       4.0~svn20070930-1 a high-performance XML  
processor
ii  sun-java6-jre          6-04-2            Sun Java(TM) Runtime  
Environment (

freecol recommends no packages.

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