On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz <j...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi Stjepan, > > Stjepan Gros <sgros...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to package mdk for Fedora and I'm almost there. :) > > Excellent! > >> The problem is that after running gmixvm it consumes much of disk and >> CPU resources. I managed to find out that it's scanning the whole >> directory tree (either /usr/bin or home directory, depending how it is >> started). > > What are the two ways of starting gmixvm? Do you have the same problem > starting (in a terminal) mixvm?
Yes, it is the same no matter if I start it from CLI or from a menu entry. >> Attached is gdb stack trace. Do you know what could be the exact >> problem? > > Hmmm... it's a bit difficult to tell, but i have a guess. It could be > one of the gnome daemons looking for a path, or something like that. To > check, could you edit ~/.mdk/gmixvm.config (creating it if necessary) > and ensure that it contains the lines: > > Assembler=/usr/bin/mixasm -l %s > Mixasm=/usr/bin/mixasm -l %s > Editor=/usr/bin/xterm -e vi %s > > where, in all of them, the paths are to exisiting executables? I added those lines to gmixvm.config (and created it) but it is still scanning the /usr/bin directory. And just now I found out that it also stat's/lstat's many other files of which some do not exist. Here are some excerpts from the strace output: access("/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf", R_OK) = 0 stat("/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=864, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf", O_RDONLY) = 8 read(8, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF"..., 8192) = 864 read(8, ""..., 8192) = 0 close(8) = 0 stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/normal/43e5d4fbf671883fe309ae41d335cd4d.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/43e5d4fbf671883fe309ae41d335cd4d.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat("/usr/bin/latencytest", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=110760, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/latencytest", O_RDONLY) = 13 read(13, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0>\0\1\0\0\0\340\...@\0\0\0\0\0@"..., 4096) = 4096 close(13) = 0 stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/normal/a710091ca4edfb17e916eced9711f33f.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/a710091ca4edfb17e916eced9711f33f.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat("/usr/bin/pdftoppm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=21448, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/pdftoppm", O_RDONLY) = 13 read(13, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0>\0\1\0\0\0\340...@\0\0\0\0\0@"..., 4096) = 4096 close(13) = 0 stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/normal/ffd35f2016dcc3c3e310a75b7eff6c09.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/ffd35f2016dcc3c3e310a75b7eff6c09.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat("/usr/bin/sbiload", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=18080, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/sbiload", O_RDONLY) = 13 read(13, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0>\0\1\0\0\0\24...@\0\0\0\0\0@"..., 4096) = 4096 close(13) = 0 open("/usr/bin/ntfsmove", O_RDONLY) = 13 read(13, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0>\0\1\0\0\0\320...@\0\0\0\0\0@"..., 4096) = 4096 close(13) = 0 stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/normal/ae0e5905f16b8c56928372e0b9a5e39a.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/ae0e5905f16b8c56928372e0b9a5e39a.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat("/usr/bin/veusz_listen", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1082, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/veusz_listen", O_RDONLY) = 13 read(13, "#!/usr/bin/python\n\n# Runs veus"..., 4096) = 1082 close(13) = 0 stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/normal/69d160f964a7fa71e2c3cfee29f449f6.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/home/zavod/sgros/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/69d160f964a7fa71e2c3cfee29f449f6.png", 0x7fff82a91470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat("/usr/bin/lpq", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=27, ...}) = 0 Stjepan P.S. Bugzilla entry for Fedora package is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520637 > Thanks! > jao > -- > Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also > easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. > - Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programing > _______________________________________________ bug-mdk mailing list bug-mdk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mdk