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Date:      Mon, 12 May 2003 14:57:18 -0500
From:      "Mezz bsdforums.org" <reigncracks@hotmail.com>
To:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome-pty-helper uses very high CPU..
Message-ID:  <Sea2-F42ohTYi7fv7VU00023d37@hotmail.com>

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>On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:07, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote:
> > When, I run gnome-terminal then open few new tabs and I am seeing the
> > gnome-pty-helper starts to get crazy and uses a lot of CPU..
> >
> > =====================
> > 9709 mezz     120    0  9480K  6204K RUN      0:30 70.28% 60.79%
> > gnome-pty-helper
> > =====================
> >
> > I saw that very often when I am trying to debug Metacity and AbiWord2 
>run
> > under the gdb. I tried to use gdb on it like gdb gnome-pty-helper 
><pid>.. I
> > don't know if it's useful..
>
>I'm seeing the same thing.  However, you're looking at the wrong
>pty-helper binary.  The one for vte is in /usr/X11R6/libexec.  Anyway,
>this is another threading issue, and should be fixed now.

Hehe, thanks! I didn't know that gnome-pty-helper is using vte, but I forgot 
about take the look at vte when I had the problem with gnome-terminal. I am 
updating vte right now..

Cheers,
Mezz

>Joe
>
> >
> > =====================
> > # gdb gnome-pty-helper 9709
> > [..copyright stuff..]
> >
> > Attaching to program: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-pty-helper, process 9709
> > 0x283f4023 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x283f4023 in ?? ()
> > #1  0x08049ddb in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
> > #2  0x08049315 in open_ptys (utmp=-1077936960, wtmp=0, 
>lastlog=-1077936943)
> >     at gnome-pty-helper.c:554
> > =====================
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> >
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