Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

1721.0. "process slots stay open after stop task" by LEMAN::MEISTER () Fri Nov 10 1989 11:21

hello

there is a problem under decwindows, that maybe even isn't one...
Listen: My customer tells me that when he opens several processes from fileview
and closes them from fileview, the process slots stay open (VUE$username_n 
still present in his system...
I (a frequent note reader) told him, what I found in note 649.2. 
He told me, that in the moment when he starts one more application, he has
process slots which are idle, I mean which don't consume any CPU cycles, but
that there is a new process slot created anyway. In his case, the system will
get filled up and soon unusable... 
I know, there is a behavior of DECwindows that consists in not releasing 
memory occupied by fonts from deleted DECterms. But in my customers case this is 
not the case, because apparently, he can reconstruct the problem by simply 
starting and stopping tasks like the clock etc.

So, if please anybody could tell me, if this behavior is normal, invented or 
anything else? (...because I didn't see it with my own eyes, as a poor
telephone support guy) 

thanks in advance, regards and any other thing you would like to hear,
andreas, SSG lausanne, Switzerland

    ...and the versions are....

    ...sorry...
    
    there is v5.1-1 of vms, and the DW that comes with it (v1.0, I
    think...)
    
    andreas