At 22:06 8-4-2002 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >All you are doing is marking the segment as removed. The segment >remains attached by the processes which have it open, and those >references don't go awaya until the processes in question detach >the segments, and the reference count goes to zero.
>It turns out that these segments are not proerly reference >counted and tracked, so they are not deleted when the client >"goes away". > >This is a bug in the MIT shared memory extension for X design, >and can't be fixed for long running programs with lots of >bitmaps. I'd like to take a step further and say it's in SYSVSHM design. All a program has to do is forget to do a shm_detach() and you're f#$%ed. Be glad it's just a few bitmaps, and not a 250 meg segment like I had with a certain version of Oracle. >It's an X11 question, and it's been that way since at least 1994, >so it's a long standing X11 FAQ. You could say that X11 shouldn't use SHMs the way it does now yeah. =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
