On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:06 +1000, Andrew Bramble wrote: Is this something that can be run in the background as an indexer type of process/thread?
> Agree - dot '.' probably should not be classed as an installed modules > location :0 > > Sadly this addresses only part of a wider problem. > > The traversal of filesystem and seeming enumeration of the universe > that occurs when the 'F2 Help Search' is invoked is performed by the > main thread rather than behind the scenes. Chances are the user gives > up long before this finishes and returns control to the user. > > Hence if you have installed lots of cpan modules , this problem persists. > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While testing the (almost finished) Debian package of padre 0.59, this > > is what happened: > > > > I ran padre from my home directory, loaded a file, moved the cursor to > > the end, over an exit() call and pressed F2. > > > > A new window appeared, saying 'Reading items. Please wait.'. Then my > > disk started seeking and padre appeared to be stuck. > > > > Poking with lsof showed that padre walks over my home directory > > contents. I have a huge home directory (a Svn checkout of all the perl > > module packages handled by the Debian Perl Group -- over 1600), so > > I interrupted it. > > > > Further investigation shows that padre tries to find all available > > Perl modules via the _find_installed_modules routine in > > Padre::Document::Perl::Help. This involves recursively scanning all > > directories foind in @INC. For some reason, perl's @INC on Debian > > includes the '.' directory, and since I started padre from my home > > directory, I got a nice DoS. > > > > My proposal is to skip searching the '.' directory in > > _find_installed_modules. An IRC query suggested that I mail before > > committing, so here we go :) > > > > Are there objections against skipping '.' when finding installed > > modules? > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLvZxaAAoJEOQbTFV/DYC+leEP/RzLVVlpO2sVjTpLwQPojTNz > > l9ItiY8QJqmtiNFUijqmCXYUkh922L1z6rghsmwgIgCLEpn2/8VeRLjo4VxOJ8j+ > > wQXvXHx+VvDxStMIjWYiI43HWU1AFslhtBd+dqFDHYBYhtPIAuDXuy/m69sFX91t > > tXPI7/oF6xZ+UnryOmoBe0COa2o4TfjFZfmJXSWQxitrcNN6U/w1/ok96ODpvlHA > > 2VGu/xtA0hSfIdsrfLnukbKsk4HgPtnhlP59KVJ1EhJi4k370DLSJmjqVNuQBadn > > asbYOYb0t6KE93+jj2Eg7+MpeYoMvyCJ3BjG1RstIa7aRKLajAOd1bKXZPQ2pg4O > > 5w1SDMCIzo2KJuxjgwE/bq17+iyS/5Pr98NGqLRzAoZfLzFnryTm2CShKuXYei+h > > ITHI5urC2VLz4jUBsjiW9Fkj6zO2fbAsyfu5G62idXCmouQzHGk5nGnfaZFXk1/j > > 9Idepxzvxrm6+SZuOFX5XDWoByKMla8SkaN7I6K7YJmyf/er/2iICMpZrIDA5uIo > > etSotDUjb2VpCl5YLr84VUulNlK2icOfBYd9qgC9Pst9B9XELQlDBVSmGPwTwjNW > > GAaQTdykc9dREorHohLEJtbYEBW85BqKQg0A+omIdZQ4NkuQOE8eljaCriZvlnvl > > wuPRJC+8h3X05JDjELCU > > =qLsB > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Padre-dev mailing list > > Padre-dev@perlide.org > > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
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