[194] in Zephyr_Bugs
too many zephyrgrams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Dec 14 11:42:10 1990
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 11:41:58 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU, suggest@MIT.EDU
We occasionally have problems where someone ends up with hundreds (or
thousands) of zgrams on his screen. When this happens, dealing with
them can take many minutes. For example, logging out will kill the
window manager first which will attempt to reparent all of those
zephyrgrams, effectively freezing the X server for 10 minutes or more.
The proposed fix for this is to have a maximum number of zgrams that
zwgc is willing to put on the screen. When this number is reached, it
could either quit putting up new ones, or maybe kill the oldest one
for each new one it puts up. The max number should probably be around
100 or so (and configurable if you don't like that number).
-Mark
