Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!sgi!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Bizzare problem with client exiting
Message-ID: <2530@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 18:15:43 GMT
References: <412@elan.UUCP>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <412@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
>
>The problem is that sometimes the client will exit without warning.
>Other times it exits, printing an XIO error message about a broken
>pipe.

Under X11R2, this frequently happened when the server got way ahead of a
client, filling up the buffer of events to send to that client.  When
the server ran out of room, it assumed the client was dead, and shut
down the pipe.  Xlib on the client end would detect the broken pipe and
exit with an XIO error.  This was especially a problem with small
clients in a multi-client environment, since the small ones got swapped
out alot.  This problem was, however, reportedly fixed in X11R3.

Could you possibly be having the reverse problem:  too much traffic
generated by the client, filling up the Xlib output buffer?  This could
probably be considered an Xlib bug.  Just a guess.

Ken Lee
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klee@daisy.uucp
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.