From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30807 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2004 23:14:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30796 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 23:14:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2004 23:14:25 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1BNEOvN027451 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:14:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i1BNEO0q027448 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:14:24 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:14:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GDI object leak with remote emacs In-Reply-To: <16426.44436.977811.58100@what.openface.ca> Message-ID: References: <16426.44436.977811.58100@what.openface.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 List-Id: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jeremy Tan wrote: > I don't know if this is related to the problems that people are > experiencing with local copies of emacs but I'm seeing a GDI object > leak with remote invocations of emacs that are routed back to my X > server. > > Basically, I run cygwin/XFree86 on my local workstation, and I start > an emacs on a Unix server that is displayed on my X server here. > When using emacs, everytime I open a file, I can see that the XWin.exe > processes gains a few GDI objects, but killing that buffer in emacs > doesn't free them. Exiting emacs doesn't free them either. Once the > leak grows enough (around 1500 GDI objects in XWin.exe) I start > getting repaint problems and I have to kill X and restart it. > > This only started occuring when I updated my cygwin package last > week. Below is my cygcheck output. > > Thanks, > j FWIW, the same GDI object accumulation happens in Exceed. This is just a datapoint, though, and doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed in XWin, if at all possible. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton