Re: [Nautilus-list] Change committed that may affect the slowness

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 13Oct2001 03:18PM (-0700), Seth Nickell wrote:
> > Try running it under the debugger and hit Control-C while the UI is
> > frozen. Then see if you can figure out what it's blocking on from the
> > backtraces of the various threads (I recommend `cont' as a way to
> > switch threads (it will keep stopping until you cycle through all the
> > threads) rather than the actual gdb way to do it, the latter is
> > somewhat unreliable.
> 
> yeah, I was looking at this last night but its not telling me anything.
> 
> There are 11 threads, 8 of which are inactive threads waiting in the
> GnomeVFS thread pool, one of which is the pthread manager, one of which
> is the nautilus main loop. The only interesting thing I see is one
> thread performing the directory count. The Nautilus main loop seems to
> behaving as per normal.
> 
> I was totally wrong about the UI freezing though. The UI continues to be
> responsive even during the long pause where the throbber has stopped but
> the elements have yet to display. I can even click on the several icons
> that displayed before the "pause" and drag them around.

In that case, it's probably because Darin bumped the hysteresis up to
4 seconds to see how that affects the problem.
 
 - Maciej