Bug 11511

Summary: upon X startup, gmc thrashes @99% of cpu for a time
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Brock Organ <borgan>
Component: gmcAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: bmoss+wasbobmoss, ddumas
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Flags
rpm -qa of machine affected
none
cat /proc/cpuinfo
none
full strace -p performed (from near startup till end of thrashing ... about 1 minute of clock time) none

Description Brock Organ 2000-05-18 17:53:25 UTC 
here is an excerpt from the strace -p for the time gmc spends thrashing the
CPU ...

brk(0x81a9000)                          = 0x81a9000
brk(0x81aa000)                          = 0x81aa000
read(8, "icies\n0:25 rojects\n0:24 resource"..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0x81ab000)                          = 0x81ab000
brk(0x81ac000)                          = 0x81ac000
brk(0x81ad000)                          = 0x81ad000
brk(0x81ae000)                          = 0x81ae000
brk(0x81af000)                          = 0x81af000
brk(0x81b0000)                          = 0x81b0000
read(8, "vo\n0:33 800\n0:35 8\n0:34 46\n0:32 "..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0x81b1000)                          = 0x81b1000
brk(0x81b2000)                          = 0x81b2000
brk(0x81b3000)                          = 0x81b3000
brk(0x81b4000)                          = 0x81b4000
brk(0x81b5000)                          = 0x81b5000
read(8, "pmanager\n0:22 help\n0:22 icons\n0:"..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0x81b6000)                          = 0x81b6000
brk(0x81b7000)                          = 0x81b7000
Comment 1 Brock Organ 2000-05-18 17:53:59 UTC 
Created attachment 256 [details]
rpm -qa of machine affected
Comment 2 Brock Organ 2000-05-18 17:54:59 UTC 
Created attachment 257 [details]
cat /proc/cpuinfo
Comment 3 Brock Organ 2000-05-18 17:56:59 UTC 
Created attachment 258 [details]
full strace -p performed (from near startup till end of thrashing ... about 1 minute of clock time)
Comment 4 Jonathan Blandford 2000-05-26 14:34:59 UTC 
can you move the .gnome/metadata.db file out of the way and see if that fixes
it?
Comment 5 Brock Organ 2000-05-27 00:50:59 UTC 
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:53:37 -0700
From: Bob Moss <bmoss>
To: Brock Organ <borgan>
Subject: Re: [Bug 11511] Changed - upon X startup,
     gmc thrashes @99% of cpu fora  time (fwd)

Nope, same behavior. Let me know if you guys think of something else.

Thanks,

Bob
Comment 6 Jonathan Blandford 2000-07-18 20:10:31 UTC 
Can you let me know if this is still a problem?
Comment 7 Jonathan Blandford 2001-07-13 19:17:46 UTC 
gmc is deprecated in favor of nautilus