Re: OpenGL timing problem

[Shai Ayal]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Michael D Godfrey
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Shai,
>
> Could I just remind you that the problem:
>
> octave:1> plot(1:200)
> octave:2> print("testpdf.pdf")
> GL2PS error: Bad file pointer
> panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> =============================
>
> still exists.  The simplest test that I now have is:
>
> 1. ssh to a machine running current tip, through a relatively
>     slow DSL line.  (All machine are Fedora 13 x86_64.)
>
> 2. Try plot(1:200); print("test.pdf")
>     when no other traffic is using bandwidth.  Most of the
>     time it works correctly.
>
> 3. Do the same sequence, but while there is other traffic on the
>     DSL connection.  This always fails as above.
>
> Do you need a bt of this from the current system?
> Can I help fix this?
Michael,

A bt of this error from a current system would be helpful. I will try
to recreate this here (surprisingly I too have access to a slow DSL
connection ...), I'll see if I succeed.

Shai