From: Paul <ele...@ya...> - 2003-12-19 23:02:55
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Hi all, I've just compiled QT 3.2.2 with mingw 3.1.0-1 on Windows XP - it took about 1gb of memory to link the bugger! Anyway, that all went well and things like QAssistant and Designer seem to work well :) Fantastic ! However, I've found a rather bizarre problem. If you open up explorer and look at the qt/bin folder, explorer's CPU usage hits and stays at 100% for quite some time. Like 10-20 mins ! I think I saw it slowly load an icon once, so I have a feeling its regarding that. Even more bizarre, if you right-click on qassistant.exe, explorer will HANG for ages and ages. Its about 10-20 minutes I think. Any idea whats going on? I'm not connected to the net, i'm up to date with ms patches and the virus scanner has kept the viruses away, so I dont think its anything external. I downloaded and installed mingw-3.1.0-1.exe and msys-1.0.9.exe I dont think I needed anything else? Thanks, Paul ps i opened up another explorer to My Computer after i rightclicked, and the little flashlight is still sweeping back and forth, 5 mins so far... weird?! |
From: Luke D. <cod...@ho...> - 2003-12-20 01:57:23
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How big are these executables? I have seen the problem of right-clicking taking forever with very large executables over a network, but not just browsing the folder. What shell extensions do have have installed (e.g. zip programs)? Luke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" <ele...@ya...> To: <min...@li...> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 6:59 AM Subject: [Mingw-users] mingw, qt and windows xp explorer > Hi all, > > I've just compiled QT 3.2.2 with mingw 3.1.0-1 on Windows XP - it took > about 1gb of memory to link the bugger! Anyway, that all went well and > things like QAssistant and Designer seem to work well :) Fantastic ! > > However, I've found a rather bizarre problem. If you open up explorer > and look at the qt/bin folder, explorer's CPU usage hits and stays at > 100% for quite some time. Like 10-20 mins ! I think I saw it slowly > load an icon once, so I have a feeling its regarding that. > > Even more bizarre, if you right-click on qassistant.exe, explorer will > HANG for ages and ages. Its about 10-20 minutes I think. > > Any idea whats going on? I'm not connected to the net, i'm up to date > with ms patches and the virus scanner has kept the viruses away, so I > dont think its anything external. > > I downloaded and installed mingw-3.1.0-1.exe and msys-1.0.9.exe I dont > think I needed anything else? > > Thanks, > Paul > > ps i opened up another explorer to My Computer after i rightclicked, and > the little flashlight is still sweeping back and forth, 5 mins so far... > weird?! |
From: Greg C. <chi...@mi...> - 2003-12-20 03:05:17
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Paul wrote: > > I've just compiled QT 3.2.2 with mingw 3.1.0-1 on Windows XP - it took > about 1gb of memory to link Once I built wxWindows in some way that used 700Mb to link. > However, I've found a rather bizarre problem. If you open up explorer > and look at the qt/bin folder, explorer's CPU usage hits and stays at > 100% for quite some time. You don't say how much RAM you have, but presumably a lot of stuff got swapped out, including whatever was formerly in the disk cache. And whatever stuff is in RAM now has to get swapped or discarded so that exploder can load itself and read the bin/ directory. If you've got a low-performance file system or a lot of fragmentation, it'll be that much slower. See the message posted here 3 Dec 2003 22:35:16 -0500 by <jwi...@mf...> and the ensuing thread titled 'not a toy (ld slow)'. > Like 10-20 mins ! I've never seen it quite that slow, though. > Any idea whats going on? I'm not connected to the net, i'm up to date > with ms patches and the virus scanner has kept the viruses away, so I > dont think its anything external. Turn off any background virus scanner and any other useless background process that does a lot of disk access, like the indexing service and any defragger that's continually running. Probably the only other things that would help are more RAM, a faster hard drive, or a different OS. |