Slow Graph Generation

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 13:14, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
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> >From the archives:=20
> [http://www.gnumatic.com/pipermail/gnucash-user/2001-August/002058.html]
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> John Bafford, on Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:28:16 -0400:
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> > The (very large) backtrace is in another email so as not to spam=20
> > everyone on the list.
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> > My uneducated guess, since i don't have a copy of the sources handy,=20
> > is that guppi is trying to get a random number for a unique ID, and=20
> > possibly doing so many, many, times and depletes the entropy pool in=20
> > the process.
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> > 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=20
> remark:
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> >>  > Whenever I have it generate graphs, it always takes at least a
> >>  > minute. Neither gnucash or any of the processes it spawns to draw=20
> >>  > the
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> >>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 i=
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> >>again by moving the mouse or generating network traffic.
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> I'm running into this with 1.6.2.  I discovered that moving the mouse or=20
> causing interrupts some other way helps it along and a strace confirmed=20
> that reads of /dev/random were blocking.
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> Has this issue been resolved?  I don't see a reference to a solution in=20
> the list archives.

This is a Guppi problem and newer versions of Guppi resolve it.
I think Guppi >=3D 0.40 should be ok.

dave


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