[18254] in Athena Bugs
Xsgi and zwgc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Sep 11 21:54:29 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009120154.VAA18507@nerd-xing.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@mit.edu
I accidentally left myself subscribed to a somewhat-high-volume zephyr
class over the weekend, and accumulated a large number of zephyrgram
windows. A well-placed control-button1 (the only way to deal with
zephyrgrams!) locked up my O2 for 45 *minutes* as the windows sloooowly
vanished, one... by... one... Xsgi was taking 100% of the cpu for the
duration of this exercise. (Window manager was twm.)
I'm guessing there's some sort of lossy interaction between zwgc and the
SGI X server (bugs? from SGI??!!), but didn't collect much data as I
needed the machine for other things. This problem is repeatable.
Is this a known problem? If not, I'm willing to chase it down as time
permits, as I am not unexperienced in debugging X servers.
