gnome-pty-helper uses very high CPU..

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:07, Mezz bsdforums.org wrote:
> When, I run gnome-terminal then open few new tabs and I am seeing the 
> gnome-pty-helper starts to get crazy and uses a lot of CPU..
> 
> =====================
> 9709 mezz     120    0  9480K  6204K RUN      0:30 70.28% 60.79% 
> gnome-pty-helper
> =====================
> 
> I saw that very often when I am trying to debug Metacity and AbiWord2 run 
> under the gdb. I tried to use gdb on it like gdb gnome-pty-helper <pid>.. I 
> don't know if it's useful..

I'm seeing the same thing.  However, you're looking at the wrong
pty-helper binary.  The one for vte is in /usr/X11R6/libexec.  Anyway,
this is another threading issue, and should be fixed now.

Joe

> 
> =====================
> # gdb gnome-pty-helper 9709
> [..copyright stuff..]
> 
> Attaching to program: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-pty-helper, process 9709
> 0x283f4023 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x283f4023 in ?? ()
> #1  0x08049ddb in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
> #2  0x08049315 in open_ptys (utmp=-1077936960, wtmp=0, lastlog=-1077936943)
>     at gnome-pty-helper.c:554
> =====================
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
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