GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 301933
About Dialog Uses 100% CPU
Last modified: 2008-09-08 00:35:38 UTC
CPU usage jumps to 100% when viewing the about dialog. Might I suggest using the GTK About dialog, instead? (Although, the current dialog does look pretty cool :)
Hmm, what is really the problem with cpu usage jumping to 100%. If you have it why don't yo want to use it? I can't see this as a significant issue. You are unlikely to watch the gnumeric about dialog while you are trying to run some other cpu intensive program.
It really isn't a significant issue but I was thinking of those people with slow machines opening the about dialog only to find that their system is nearly crippled by it.
I'm not sure if this is the same bug, but the win32 version (1.5.1-rc1) shows this in the console when viewing the about dialog: colinear! colinear! x_order_2: colinear! x_order_2: colinear! x_order_2: colinear! x_order_2: colinear! colinear! colinear! x_order_2: colinear! x_order_2: colinear! etc. etc. CPU usage around 60-75 %
I lowered the animation rate from 1 sec per name to 3 secs per name. This makes it look far less busy, and cuts down CPU usage as well.
(In reply to comment #0) > CPU usage jumps to 100% when viewing the about dialog. Kevin, is this problem still reproducible for you with gnumeric 1.8 or newer? (In reply to comment #3) > I'm not sure if this is the same bug, but the win32 version (1.5.1-rc1) > shows this in the console when viewing the about dialog: > > colinear! > colinear! > x_order_2: colinear! > x_order_2: colinear! Joonas, these messages were being generated on other platforms as well, but they should be gone with more recent gnumeric and goffice packages. Please test whether they are gone for you as well and report back.
as JHM points out this was fixed long ago.