Ubuntu 16.04, slow performance

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Hi,

I just updatedt to Ubuntu 16.04 and since then KNIME is behaving much slower. This very poor performance makes it not usable at all.Sometimes it even hangs.

any clue?

 

best,

igor

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I found the solution. The problem is a bug of Ubuntu Xenial regarding GTK.

There are two possible work arounds: one is to set a env variable in the terminal before launching Knime:

export SWT_GTK3=0

The second option is to edit the knime.ini by putting the followint two lines before "-vmargs"

--launcher.GTK_version
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The bug is already documented in canonical:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/java-common/+bug/1552764

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Hi Igor,

thank you for sharing your solution with us.

We had problem with this ubunto bug before, and of course hoping for a fix.

Best regards,

Iris 

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Hi,

I can confirm this issue with Ubuntu 16.04. The first solution (export SWT_GTK3=0) works for me, the second does not.

Best/Evert

5

Hi everyone,

Anyone has checked if this "gtk3/swt issue" is fixed in Knime 3.3 that includes an upgrade to Eclipse 4.6 ?

All the best, olav

 

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Hi evertone,

I just checked that Knime 3.3 seams to runs smoothly in Ubuntu 16.04

Best, olav