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Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs



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On 07/30/07 10:57, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:41:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> You *know* that if all you say is "it just keeps doing something and
>> effectively hangs", you'll get fussed at for sending a useless message.
> 
> Right. The window becomes unusable, I am unable to regain control over
> the application, and am forced to kill it. The hard disk shows some
> activity initially, then the process uses the processor time
> sporadically increases and decreases for that application if I leave
> it running. Observed using top.
> 
> I can't describe it better. Sorry if this doesn't help.

The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory
gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog.  And it just
burns up the CPU.  If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog
will "never" open.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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