[Gambas-user] Program runs wild

[Eilert]

Hi Mike,

Charlie's trick didn't help as you can read from my mail to him.

I'll print out your comments and maybe try later. First I'll have to 
have a look at the Console example. Maybe I'll find time for it during 
the holidays... :-) Thanks anyway!

Rolf


Mike Keehan schrieb:
> Eilert wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Charlie schrieb:
>>
>>> Eilert schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Benoit Minisini schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 11:45, Eilert wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Benoit,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> malheureusement pas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It still shows the same behaviour, especially when I've switched to
>>>>>> another screen and come back after some time. But even when I stay on
>>>>>> the same screen and wait for half an hour or more, suddenly it 
>>>>>> begins to
>>>>>> accumulate processing power. First on one processor, then it 
>>>>>> spreads on
>>>>>> all four (it's a Xeon).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, it can't have to do with the string processing, maybe it's the 
>>>>>> timer?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rolf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you send me your complete project ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure, here it is - have fun with it :-)
>>>>
>>>> et bonne chance
>>>>
>>>> Rolf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Salut,
>>>
>>> I think you cumulate processes ,
>>> try that,
>>> you have one process and you kill that process after work is done.
>>>
>>> (I haven't had a long time test with that)
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, I typed it in, it works, now we'll see if it runs nuts again :-)
>>
>> Thank you for that idea, looks great:
>>
>>>  IF ListBox1.ForeColor = &H000000& THEN
>>>    ListBox1.ForeColor = &H005500&
>>>  ELSE
>>>    ListBox1.ForeColor = &H000000&
>>>  ENDIF
>>>  WAIT
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, when I typed that
>>
>>>  EXEC [ "who" ] FOR READ AS myWho
>>
>>
>>
>> the list refused to give me "myWho", instead it inserted "Menu". So I 
>> had to erase it and type myWho by hand. But it runs anyway.
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I've run your code on two machines - one works OK, the other has problems.
> 
> The OK system is a laptop, a Pentium III running Gentoo and kernel 
> 2.6.10-rc3.
> 
> The problem system is a dual Pentium III running SUSE 9.0 with kernel 
> 2.4.21.  If I run Kwholist and then goto another workspace/desktop and 
> then switch back, the  Kwholist window stays blank.  Running 'strace -p 
> PID' (the pid of the /usr/bin/gbx process) shows many sched_yield() 
> calls with the occasional nano_sleep().
> 
> A Google search for these two calls shows that this sort of problem has 
> been seen in the past, but I couldn't find a final solution.  It may be 
> a problem with glibc or possibly with the kernel.
> 
> A workaround in Gambas (that I am using in a project) is to run one 
> shell continuously in the background and send it commands as required. 
>  See the Console example for how to do this.  This seems to fix my 
> similar problem.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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