Re: restest hangs the server (was: Some hard numbers on XFree86 memory usage ...)

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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 08:13, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>  Ar an 19ú lá de mí 4, scríobh Mark Vojkovich :
> 
>  >     http://www.xfree86.org/~mvojkovi/restest.c
> 
> That locks up my X server (except for the mouse cursor) on NetBSD 1.6P,
> btw. 

I experienced the same on Linux/PPC, thought it was architecture
specific, but maybe not?

> No problem when it's run from a virtual console with DISPLAY set
> appropriately. Where would one go to fix this?

The first thing to do would be to find out where it hangs I guess.
Funnily, the server would still respond to the keyboard, at least I
could switch VTs, but it wouldn't draw (everything) anymore.


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