Essien Ita Essien wrote:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
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>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:58:33 +0200 Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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>>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:58:36 +0100 Essien Ita Essien
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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>>>>> all fixed now.
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>>>> actually not all fixed. 1 entrance process floating around. there's no need
>>>> for it to hang about like a bad smell. :) i am pretty damn sure that when i
>>>> fixed it before entrance spawned off the user's login session then REPLACED
>>>> itself with entrance_login so it became small and unobtrusive. there were
>>>> not 2 entrances and entrance became entrance_login :) i'm pretty damn sure
>>>> that's how it was... :)
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>>> I think this was a result of the whole yahoo about shells a bit back..
>>> The one that ended with entrance executing the chosen environment
>>> directly, and not run it by /bin/sh or /bin/bash
>>>
>>> Personally, the ~9MB out of 2GB the entrance process is hogging is
>>> negligible, but still wasted RAM..
>>>
>>> My biggest problem is having to execute xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap by hand all
>>> the time. I didn't have to do that a few weeks back.
>>>     
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>> it's the WAY you execute the login process. you are spawning it as a
>> sub-process of entrance, rather than REPLACING entrance. remember fork()
>> creates a child. exec() REPLACES the current process with the new one. 
>> "runing" an app is a fork + an exec as you DONT want to replace yourself. b 
>> ut
>> in this case you DO.
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>>     
> correct... that should be what is causing the XModMap thingy, and the
> extra entrance hanging around. Fix coming.
>   
The killer blow has been dealt, no more per user owned entrance process, 
only good ole entrance_login and entranced and I think it should have 
fixed morten's issue with XModMap also, Morten can you confirm this?

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
COMMAND                                                          
1953 root      16   0  6964 1936 1528 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.06 
entranced                                                        
12616 root      16   0  2004  712  576 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.97 
entrance_login                                                   
12627 essiene   15   0 22844  16m 4136 S  0.0  3.2   0:02.51 
enlightenment                                                    

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>>> -- 
>>> Morten
>>> :wq
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