Re: [Bug-gnubg] Database interface

[Marco van Tol]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:54:06PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> On Tue 25 May 2004 (14:13 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:44:24PM +0000, Marco van Tol wrote

[...]

> > > Perhaps more to give a signal of life then to contribute something useful:
> > > I'm a bit curious to know the answer to this as well. :)
> > > 
> > > I actually currently compile gnubg on my FreeBSD machine with
> > > 'WITHOUT_PYTHON' so it doesn't consume _all available cpu_ even while not
> > > really doing anything. Not sure if that's FreeBSD specific though.
> > 
> > that's a weird problem... Are you sure that it is python that consumes
> > CPU time?  I'm guesing that it's a GTK+ problem...
> 
> I think it's a limitation in the FreeBSD thread support. One of these
> days, if I ever have any spare time again, I'll install FreeBSD 5.2 or
> 5.3 which should have better threading

I see the same symptom on both FreeBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 5.2.1.
Perhaps 5.3 will indeed be better though. :)

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