[RP] Re: BadWindow

[Sven Hartrumpf]

On 21 Nov 2002, Sven Hartrumpf <address@hidden> wrote: 
> On 20 Nov 2002 01:11:35 -0800, Shawn wrote: 
> > Sven writes:
> > 
> > > Hi all.
> > > Some months ago I posted the following problem:
> > > 
> > > On 18 Feb 2002, Sven Hartrumpf <address@hidden> wrote: 
> > > > I wrote earlier:
> > > > > I sometimes get an inifinite loop with "Bad Window" messages
> > > > > from 1.0.1cvs which makes the window manager process unusable.
> > > > > How can I avoid this?
> > > > > Or how can I track this error down (any specific compile or
> > > > > runtime option for this?)?
> > 
> > Hi Sven,
> > 
> > This should be fixed in 1.1.1.
> 
> I am running 1.1.1 since July.
> 
> > Are you still having this problem? Can
> > you test it with the latest version?
> 
> Yes, I still get ratpoison eating up almost all CPU time, unless
> I use the solution described in the next paragraph.
> (But I don't know about these messages in my log.)

The messages still fill my harddik in such situations.
You should be able to reproduce the problem:
1. use xbindkeys and bind the cursor keys (or similar to focusleft etc.)
2. increase cpu load (> 4 or so)
3. move the focus by using the keys from step 1. very fast
You end up with many ratpoison processes
that seem to be irritated about what is the RP window manager process
(only a guess).

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