On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:54:58PM -0400, Richard Querin wrote: ... > > I ran an strace at the point when things were running quickly and I've now run > one now that it's slow. I compared the two the best that I could (it's a huge > file) and didn't find a huge difference except for the fact that it's loading > some wxGtk related libs in the newer one (since I've installed python-wgtk2.6 > since doing the fresh install). I tried uninstalling the wx-related stuff but > still no change. is the process fork()ing at all? make sure you (-f) "follow" the children. did you watch the output of strace while it was being created? you should do that in order to watch for long running function calls. ltrace too. I wouldn't expect the output to show much difference. the difference is more likely be become apparent while watching the creation of the output. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list