On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:55:07 +0200 Francois Baudens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Yes it was the case for that app : it began flashing red, then the app > responded, but the red signal was still flashing. And it stopped a few > seconds later. > Good feature ! > > Do you think it's possible to make the difference between a dead app > and a slow app ? no. there is no wak to know that even as a human or as the os or maybe even the hung app itself. it can only be inferred by "if it hasnt reposnded after a long time and you expected it to respond much sooner - it might be permenantly hung". some hung apps get hung for hourse and then respond, or only seconds or mnutes. properly written apps never hang. their response tiems are within fractions of a second - 1/100th of a second or faster on an unloaded system. on loaded systems it shoudl still be well under a second (less than 1/4 of a second) normally, unless the app is not written well. sometiems there is a short hiccup for a second or 2 when it has to do some IO it expects normalyl will be very fast but something on the system makes it slow (it has to read a small file from a CD that now has to spin up to work and the CD is spinning up thus the app it blocked until it can read the 200 byte file). thus the default of 10 seconds until e marks the app as "hung". it's up to you as to what to do - but it is intended to bring your attention to a app with a problem and let you know something about it (the app literally is not responding to gui events). as mentions. it's up to you as to what you want to do about it. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
