Re: Can someone explain this?

[Jim Buzbee <James Buzbee echostar com>]

jean-marc Harang wrote:
> Le Lundi 9 Septembre 2002 22:20, Jim Buzbee a écrit :
>
> > In order to track some performance issues, I've been "stracing" a
> > program that makes gtk calls. The following is a portion of the output
> > that I'm curious about.
> >
> > The snippet below is a result of a call to  gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm
> >
> > Specifically does anyone know why the exact same _llseek call is
> > repeated several hundred times?
>
>
> Can you be more accurate ? What version of Gtk, 


/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0.5.3
/usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0.5.3


> which filesystem

XFS

> and even which distros  ?

It's a custom distribution with Linux kernel 2.4.8


> Do you have a look at the source code ?...

I have not dug into the source code for gdk, but the application is 
calling :

gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm