Re: Suddenly very slow applet startup time

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 21:50 +0100, Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:40 -0300, Diego Pons wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:29, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > 
> > > I've run strace on the ControlCenter applet, since it also suffers from
> > > the problem and have attached the output here.
> > > 
> > > It waits on line 283 showing just:
> > > waitpid(-1, 
> > > 
> > > This line doesn't complete until the applet is closed.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Try the -f option to also see the children's output. It's waiting for a
> > child process to terminate.
> > 
> 
> This man is a genius.  This gives many many gettimeofday calls, a
> problem I have read about with Neverwinter Nights although never
> suffered with myself.  I will check with their forums for further
> enlightenment.
> 
> If you have knowledge of this problem then it's output is:
> [pid 14544] <... gettimeofday resumed> {1089751702, 905165}, NULL) = 0
> [pid 14544] gettimeofday({1089751702, 905592}, NULL) = 0
> [pid 14544] gettimeofday({1089751702, 905633}, NULL) = 0
> [pid 14546] <... nanosleep resumed> NULL) = 0
> [pid 14548] <... poll resumed> [{fd=8, events=POLLRDNORM}], 1, 1) = 0
> [pid 14544] gettimeofday( <unfinished ...>
> [pid 14546] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [QUIT RTMIN],  <unfinished ...>
> [pid 14548] ioctl(8, FIONREADd ...>
> [pid 14538] gettimeofday( <unfinished ...>
> 
> from the various created java processes.
> 
> I'll post back when I have further information as I (hope to) discover
> it.
> 

I have opened and annotated a bug at [1] and would appreciate you taking
a glance at it in case it is something that has been solved before.

 1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56990

Thanks,

-- 
Tom Wesley <[email protected]>

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