From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 17:01:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA18847 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com ([207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA18842 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA20115; Mon, 6 May 1996 16:59:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: whistle.com: smap set sender to using -f Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020113; Mon May 6 16:59:41 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA11153; Mon, 6 May 1996 16:59:40 -0700 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199605062359.QAA11153@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: fvwm eating cycles: problem found To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: fvwm@wonderland.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com * Whistle Communications Corporation