On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:30:11PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> [...]
> When the app is started but before the 
> GUI is displayed for the first time, CPU usage is negligible, but as 
> soon as the GUI is displayed, the app starts using all available CPU 
> time, and it continues to do so as long as it runs, whether the GUI is 
> displayed or not. So I wonder if there's something more I need to do to 
> keep the app well-behaved (BTW, it should never require much CPU time. 
> It's a lightweight file manager, and is graphical only in the sense that 
> it is a GUI app--it uses no icons or other images).

Try making the fd nonblocking before you create the glib channel:
    Unix.set_nonblock msg_fd;

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