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Bug 336478 - 100% cpu time while using progress bar
100% cpu time while using progress bar
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: zenity
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Zenity Maintainers
Zenity Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-29 12:04 UTC by Maxime
Modified: 2008-06-27 13:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Maxime 2006-03-29 12:04:28 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I am seeing 100% cpu usage from zenity while using the progress bar (with
--pulsate or --percentage options, same result). 

Steps to reproduce:
1. In a shell for exemple
2. locate lib | zenity --progress --pulsate
3. 


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
After some research on the web I could see several people having the same issue.
Comment 1 Maxime 2006-03-29 12:07:08 UTC 
Verified with the command "top".
Comment 2 Lucas Rocha 2006-05-10 03:54:25 UTC 
This high CPU usage is being caused by the locate command, not zenity. If you use zenity progress dialog with a lighter command, no excessive CPU usage happens. This is not a bug.
Comment 3 Maxime 2006-05-10 10:02:22 UTC 
Thanks for your reply.

But if I
use zenity progress dialog with a lighter command, the result is the same.

And "top" shows it is the "zenity" process, not "locate" or else.
Comment 4 Matt McCutchen 2008-06-27 13:51:59 UTC 
Comment #3 is right; I get 100% CPU even with "zenity --progress </dev/null".  Someone please reopen the bug.  See also bug 540489.