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Date:      Mon, 6 May 1996 16:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        fvwm@wonderland.org
Subject:   fvwm eating cycles: problem found
Message-ID:  <199605062359.QAA11153@bubba.whistle.com>

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I finally figured out why 'fvwm' (from the FreeBSD packages collection)
was eating up as many CPU cycles as it could on my machine...

The trigger was this line in my .cshrc:

  limit descriptors unlimited

This makes the descriptors limit go from the default of 64 to the
maximum of 808.

This causes fvwm to eat cycles for no reason. My guess is this has something
to do with that obscure select()/getfdtablesize() bug... don't really
remember how it goes.

Details:

  FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE standard stuff
  Login shell is tcsh

Anybody have a better explanation?

-Archie

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Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com  *  Whistle Communications Corporation



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