OK got it. Indeed it is a clipboard issue. What I was doing is copying large amount of image data in The Gimp (like 4MB images). That immediately stalled XXE. And apparently the stall time is proportional to the amount of data copied. If you copy a tiny text in another application (hence emptying the clipboard I assume) XXE is back to normal.
That is on Mandriva Linux, my colleague Fabian was able to reproduce this on Ubuntu as well. Good luck, Camille. Hussein Shafie wrote: > Camille B?gnis wrote: > >> I have been experiencing a very annoying behavior with XXE in the recent >> months: >> >> The problem is that I have no stable process to reproduce the behavior: >> after some time using XXE, it suddenly stalls every time I change the >> context node. It stalls for a few seconds to a few minutes, there is no >> CPU, memory or network usage. Then it gets back to "normal" until I >> change context node again. >> That leaves the application unusable. >> >> I have tried: >> - to remove the .xxe4/ >> - with little and big documents >> - with different schema (docbook, html) >> - with different XXE versions >> - with different java versions (including latest 11) >> >> to no avail. >> >> The only thing that works is to restart the OS (Linux). >> I suspect it is memory related, or conflicts with another application, >> since sometimes, when I close other applications (I usually have many >> open on my 2GB RAM system) it works again (after I restart XXE). >> >> Any idea what else I could try? >> >> > > We think that: > > 1) This problem is specific to Linux/X11. This problem has *never* been > reported on Windows or on the Mac. This problem has already been > reported on Linux a number of times. > > 2) This problem is related to the X11 Clipboard/System selection. > > 3) This problem is specific to Java 1.6 (i.e. does not happen with Java > 1.5). > > 4) It depends on the other applications (Gimp, OpenOffice, etc) running > along with XXE. > > 5) This problem is not caused by bugs that we made. > > 6) When XXE is stuck, if you are curious, start jconsole and try to find > which thread is blocked. > > We daily use XXE on Linux and this never happens to us (well it happened > once in a couple of years). Therefore we think that we do not use the > same applications as you do. If you tell us how to reproduce the > problem, we may find a workaround. Otherwise, there is nothing we can do. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: camille.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 320 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20090213/af50c799/attachment.bin
