Slow Graph Generation

[John Bafford]

The (very large) backtrace is in another email so as not to spam 
everyone on the list.

My uneducated guess, since i don't have a copy of the sources handy, 
is that guppi is trying to get a random number for a unique ID, and 
possibly doing so many, many, times and depletes the entropy pool in 
the process.

At 11:31 -0500 8/1/01, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:09:24PM -0400, John Bafford was heard to remark:
>  >
>  > Whenever I have it generate graphs, it always takes at least a
>  > minute. Neither gnucash or any of the processes it spawns to draw the
>
>Where is the main process 'hanging'?  is it waiting during the read of
>/dev/random ? If so, then the entropy pool has emptied; you can fill it
>again by moving the mouse or generating network traffic.
>
>How well do you know gdb?  If you could run gdb gnucash, and hit
>^C at the point where it hangs.  Then send us the stack trace for
>the main process and each thread ...

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John Bafford
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