Package: xfe Version: 1.04-2.1 Severity: important
It appears that there is serious problem with the design of the program. According to strace, it seems to scan whole all files under start location (whole disk including NFS mounts if started at ROOT). The programs "never" starts because it is spending time at reading the files. This also causes serious disk stress and network activity. Test setup: 1. Login as root 2. cd / 3. strace $(which xfe) Watch the calls (what I can tell) for every file: ... lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/xrun", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/ish", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/osmo.todo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/gitmail.todo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 lstat64("/srv/deb/debian/speedometer", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 ... Please investigate. SUGGESTION Program should only read toop-level files and directories at startup. When user presses [+] to descend/view new directory, then it could read more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xfe depends on: ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfox-1.6-0 1.6.25-1 The FOX C++ GUI Toolkit ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.12-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii ucf 3.0010 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages xfe recommends: ii rpm 4.4.2.3-1 Red Hat package manager xfe suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]