Re: GTK programing chewing up lots of CPU

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Antony Stace <antony claire co jp> writes:
> I have a GTK program which I have developed on a Linux box.  On the
> linux box the applicatoion behaves nicely and dosen't chew up much CPU
> time.  However when I port it over to Lynx(another Unix) it chews up
> massive amounts of CPU time.  Does anyone have any ideas whats going on
> and how I might reduce the amount of CPU time it uses.

Maybe some weird feature of Lynx (Lynx isn't a full-blown UNIX
is it, just a POSIX real time OS? Maybe they implement select() in an
insanely broken way?)

I think to even guess at this though we'd need to know what your code
does, and maybe what part of the code is using CPU.

Havoc