Re: FVWM: FvwmButtons sucking up CPU...

From: Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:27:30 -0500

I wrote the patch; the latest version is attached.

Other modules have the same problem; however, since they aren't used as much
the problem is not as visible.

According to Michael Tiefenback:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Jeff Wiegley wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > Well today Things were horrible and so I did top to see if accidentally
> > had some program I wrote churning out zombies or other detached processes
> > from my thesis program. And what I found was I had seven instances of
> > FvwmButtons running and they were all fighting for 100%CPU attention.
> >
> > I read the mailing list archives and noticed that others are having
> > similar problems but I couldn't find a fix for it.
>
> My feeble memory tells me that I once suffered from this, too, in long-ago
> days (perhaps pre-version2), and that it was a (sometime later) fixed
> problem with FvwmButtons not noticing that its pipes to its parent were
> dead and gone. The fix at the time was a few lines dealing with testing
> the read pipe returns, exiting on closure of the pipes. I haven't noticed
> it on my own office 2.0.46 setup, nor at home on the (2.0.43?) setup I'm
> running. I hope this helps someone, although I don't see how this
> particular error could have crept back into the code.
>
> Michael Tiefenback
>
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Grant McDorman <grant_at_isgtec.com>
ISG Technologies, Inc.  http://www.isgtec.com
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada




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