Pdigin seems to permanently reopen some files

Zdenek Kabelac zdenek.kabelac at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 10:55:17 EST 2008


Hi

I'm running fedora rawhide's Pidgin build 2.3.1-3.fc9.
Why the pingin opens same files all over again ?

i.e.:

16:23:58.677871
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:23:58.681016 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:23:58.692300
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:23:58.695760 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:23:58.707516 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:23:58.721174
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:23:58.722982 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:28.661250
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:28.664392 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:28.679496
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:28.682647 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:28.693266
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:28.696546 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:28.707245 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:28.720140
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:28.722029 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:58.669773
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:58.673084 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:58.688196
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:58.691356 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:58.702727
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:58.706006 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:58.717292 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21
16:24:58.725507
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/emblems/16/blocked.png", O_RDONLY) =
21
16:24:58.727355 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/icq.png",
O_RDONLY) = 21


This is just a short sample.

There are far more things which are actually very strange.
(i.e. why the slow disk access locks pidgin so it's not refreshing window)

Zdenek




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