Pdigin seems to permanently reopen some files

[Daniel Atallah]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2008/2/22, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Zdenek Kabelac <
> zdenek.kabelac at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm running fedora rawhide's Pidgin build 2.3.1-3.fc9.
> > > Why the pingin opens same files all over again ?
> >
> > <snip/>
> >
> > > 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)
> >
> > This has been improved for the next release.
>
> Is it already commited - so I could check it myself ?


Yes, you can find the diff here:
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/368132d2a2702cfb0e6fcf39ee11a35ca0eceba0/with/fd241751ba7c5d47fe66c0b96787eae776d435af


>
>
> Also would it be possible to leave saving history files and other
> things to a separate thread - so I would not see upto 5 sec delays
> during typing and seeing the actual text when the hard drive is
> stressed ?


A thread isn't the right solution for this; the right solution is
non-blocking I/O for logging, which there has been some movement toward, but
hasn't yet been completed.

-D
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