Re: wxt file-save oddity

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, sfeam wrote:

> 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.

OK, I'm attaching the output from this.

Allin Cottrell