-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGriFMS9HxQb37XmcRAlK8AJ4vqD1q+ToxWvQ6zoQZSWqXpxZsxACfREpC wDli/II8mJAAsBXhS7B2Q24= =19Pd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]