[Gambas-user] loading PDF widget very slow

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 13/06/2014 01:47, Ian Haywood a écrit :
> I've noticed that suddenyl loading any PDF became very slow (1-15
> seconds to load)
> the PDFs are small and no my local drive, so should load almost immediately.
>
> then I discovered chanigng my default printer fixed it
>
> using strace, this is what's happening while I wait for the PDF to load
>
> connect(34, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.8")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation
> now in progress)
> fcntl64(34, F_SETFL, O_RDWR)            = 0
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
> poll([{fd=34, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, 250) = 0 (Timeout)
>
> my interpretation is that it's trying to talk to the printer on
> 192.168.1.8: that's my printer at home, not available when I'm at work
>
> but the real question is: why does the PDF widget even care? I don't
> want to print, just look at the PDF
>

What do you call "PDF widget"???

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Benoît Minisini