Re: [RP] SMP and ratpoison

[Shawn Betts]

William R Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> I am not sure how closely the Sourceforge bug tracker is being
> followed for ratpoison, so I figured I would repost here.
> 
> The text if the original bug is available here:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=651655&group_id=10306&atid=110306
> 
> But the short synopsis is, with every version of ratpoison I have
> tried, I have been plagued with ratpoison becoming unresponsive and X
> windows needing to be restarted to allow me to do anything related to
> windowing.  The ratpoison maxes out the processor, and any 'ratpoison
> -c's stick around forever without doing anything.
> 
> Using the same version of ratpoison + the same libraries etc at my
> house, ratpoison is as stable as can be.  The only difference I have
> been able to determine is that my work machine is SMP.
> 
> Is anyone running ratpoison on an SMP box with success?  Has anyone
> seen this type of behavior and figured out what is going on?

Hi William,

Well, after quite some time, I have found the bug (I think)!

ratpoison wasn't handling the case when 2 or more clients 'push' their
command before ratpoison has a chance to service the first. It would
just loop on the first command forever. Well, I shoulda read the X11
docs closer :).

Shawn