More Test 15 [CGF please comment]

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:17:14PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>As noted in an earlier message, the XWin Xserver generates a
>huge number of connections on some platforms (some WinME in 
>particular).
>~: netstat -a | wc -l
>   1322
>Eventually this causes select() not to return. On other platforms
>connections are also generated at a high rate but they don't linger
>for long and their total number at any time remains reasonable.
>
>The connections are not generated by the XServer code proper,
>but inside the select() subroutine, which is called every 10 ms.
>This seems to be the case even when the descriptors set in the 
>mask are only network connections and not regular files.
>
>Chris, is the generation of connections part of the design? It
>isn't mentioned in select's section in the cygwin users' guide.

I don't know why connections would be generated.  I am not even
sure what you are talking about.

cgf