Package: xfe
Version: 1.04-2.1
Severity: important
It appears that there is serious problem with the design of the
program. According to strace, it seems to scan whole all files under
start location (whole disk including NFS mounts if started at
ROOT). The programs "never" starts because it is spending time at
reading the files. This also causes serious disk stress and network
activity.
Test setup:
1. Login as root
2. cd /
3. strace $(which xfe)
Watch the calls (what I can tell) for every file:
...
lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/xrun", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096,
...}) = 0
lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/ish", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0755, st_size=4096,
...}) = 0
lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/osmo.todo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/gitmail.todo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...})
= 0
lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/speedometer", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
...
Please investigate.
SUGGESTION
Program should only read toop-level files and directories at
startup. When user presses [+] to descend/view new directory, then it
could read more information.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfe depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfox-1.6-0 1.6.25-1 The FOX C++ GUI Toolkit
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.12-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii ucf 3.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages xfe recommends:
ii rpm 4.4.2.3-1 Red Hat package manager
xfe suggests no packages.
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