Hi Peter... ---------- Peter Colovas wrote ------------- >Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 92 >It may be benign since I'm trying to kill the server anyway, but it also >points to a memory leak or some other error which is causing the GPF. >xwinclip also fails at other times, although I haven't been running 92 >long enough to see if it happens. It would be interesting if someone >with access to Purify or another memory profiling tool could compile >XWin and see what happens.
Purify's a bit out of my price range, but IMHO this is not a real memory leak/etc. issue. Since it only happens during shutdown of the server, and isn't repeatable at that, I believe this is more of a freeing() in the main app cause by the shutdown of the X server (it frees all ScreenPtrs, for example) without killing the extra worker threads (xwinclip, mwmgr) who have local copies of some of these pointers. Sometimes the thread gets activated before the process completely terminates - and the GPF happens, and sometimes it doesn't get activated and the shutdown happens normally. However, if someone did have Purify, you're 100% right that it would be an interesting run in any case! -- -Earle F. Philhower, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ziplabel.com
