Re: Glib IO speed improved by moving mouse

Hi Johan,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:53:55 +0200 Johan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Today when I tryed to solve this problem I noticed
> something that made the transferspeed be as good as in
> linux. If I moved my mouse-pointer( inside the application
> window ) all the time during the filetransfer, the speed
> was improved alot!

I assume you're talking about sockets. We had the same problems with
an email client (Sylphed-Claws) and patched some parts of glib:

----8<----
diff -Pru glib-2.0.1/glib/gmain.c glib/glib/gmain.c
--- glib-2.0.1/glib/gmain.c	Thu Mar  7 00:43:52 2002
+++ glib/glib/gmain.c	Sat Apr 27 15:30:42 2002
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
       }
 
   if (timeout == -1)
-    timeout = INFINITE;
+    timeout = 10; // INFINITE;
 
   if (poll_msgs)
     {
---->8----

A complete list of changes can be viewed here:
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/win32/patches/Attic/glib.diff?rev=1.1.2.1&only_with_tag=win32&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

A compiled version of the patched glib-2.0-0 is contained here:
  http://claws-w32.sourceforge.net/sylpheed/claws/dll_standard_020724.zip

Maybe this works for you.
I didnt find the time to find out if this is caused by unclean code
on our side or a glib problem.

HTH
-- 
Thorsten Maerz          <[email protected]>
Sylpheed-claws/Win32:   http://claws-w32.sf.net