app slow down

[Dan Kuchler]

me wrote:
> 
> Hi;
> 
> My application shows strange delays at several points. Opening Window a)
> 
> needs 2 minutes - opening another similar Window b) 2 secounds. The
> application does not do any
> computations that can cause such delays. I used truss to pin down the
> problem . The interpreter sleeps in read - 60..120 secounds - read(6,
> 0x0071FD7C, 5120)       (sleeping...) - and then starts again.
> 
> This happends on my Solaris 8 (6/2000) installation with python 1.52 and
> 1.6 (with TclTk 8.3 , Pmw and PyXML). I think some change in my
> application triggered is ??
> 
> I searched the FAQs for knows Bugs or programming errors that can cause
> this but did't found
> anything ....
> Any ideas how to solve this are welcome !
> 

What window manager are you using?

This problem you describe might be specific to
the window manager that you are using.

--Dan