linuxcnc.command.flood taking a long time to complete..

I'm doing some experimenting with the linuxcnc python interface running on the latest version of PathPilot.

I'm executing this code... (this is a fragment)
   
self.lc = self.linuxcnc.command()
...
    elif ( cmd[0] == self.CMD_FLOOD ):
        error_handler.log("in CMD_FLOOD")
        self.lc.flood(1)
        error_handler.log("after CMD_FLOOD")

The error_handler.log function I'm using from pathpilot. It has timestamps so I know when the message was written.

The command lc.flood(1) is taking a full 5 seconds to complete. Is this normal? Any ideas how to speed it up as its almost unusable in its current state.

Thank you,
Scott...

What mode are you in when setting flood on?
The command loos good so it's some other related problem.
you can some times use linuxcnc's status program to see what's going on compared to another gui.