Hi!! This is Chetan again I did follow the discussion on the stability issue of gimp. but back to the main question. It happened again --- and here is the trace (strace) during the time when the process hanged and I have not been able to pin-point as to where the problem lies. You see I use gimp non interactively using Perl-Gimp therefore I am neither a gimp user(I assume most/all 'user' use gimp interactively) nor a gimp developer but someone in between. hence to this mailing list. so here is the output generated by strace command, this goes on indefinately (2 sec. generated > 15000 such lines) and Perl-Server shows 99% of CPU used in the 'top' ############### strace output########### read(0, "", 4096) = 0 getpid() = 23038 write(1, "/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/Perl-"..., 101) = 101 read(0, "", 4096) = 0 getpid() = 23038 write(1, "/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/Perl-"..., 101) = 101 read(0, "", 4096) = 0 getpid() = 23038 write(1, "/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/Perl-"..., 101) = 101 read(0, "", 4096) = 0 getpid() = 23038 write(1, "/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/Perl-"..., 101) = 101 ############################################# Please help Chetan On Sat, 26 May 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:11:54PM +0530, Chetan Dhavse <cdhavse@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am using Gimp 1.1.4(I find this version more stable) > > same here.. gimp-1.2 has big stability and memory problems when it > encounters lots of images in succession. > > > The problem is the programs just hangs after making 200/300 charts. > > I think the problem is with the perl server, The program stops after the > > '%CPU used' shows 95% (of top) for the perl server. > > could it be that gimp closes the pipe and the perl-server tries to send > commands but never can (it's not programmed to catch every case, to make > it as fast as possible). Could you strace the pelr-server when that > happens again and send me an excerpt (just "strace -p <pid>")? > > > If I start two instances of this program the top shows two perl servers. > > is this right? > > depends. you can configure the behaviour by setting the GIMP_HOST > environment variable (perldoc Gimp::Net) > > -- > -----==- | > ----==-- _ | > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxx |e| > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ > The choice of a GNU generation | > | > >
