Re: wxt file-save oddity

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Saturday, 15 November 2014 01:54:32 PM Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > On 11/15/2014 11:55 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 11/15/2014 11:36 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> >>>> I just tried out the file save button in the gnuplot wxt window. It
> >>>> works nicely... except that I'm seeing a delay of up to 40 seconds
> >>>> between clicking the button and the file-save dialog opening.
> >>>> 
> >>>> This is on a lightly loaded system, with gnuplot launched via
> >>>> gnuplot -persist<plotfile>.
> >>> 
> >>> What operating system?
> >> 
> >> Arch Linux. No other programs showing odd delays in response.
> 
> Aha. No such problem if I run gnuplot interactively, load the plot 
> file and display the plot. Then the Save button works instantly. The 
> loooong delay just happens when gnuplot is run with -persist.

In that case it might be informative to establish where the 
program is hung/delayed.
Fire up gnuplot -persist, determinine its <pid>, then hit
the problematic button.
While it is in the hung state, from another terminal run
$ gdb -p <pid>
gdb> where

to establish where the code is hung.

	Ethan