Re: oafd lifecycle

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:

> On 16 Jul 2001 14:10:40 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > We have a problem with "lingering oafd" at the moment. Imagine a large
> > multiuser system; you'll quickly have 300 oafd floating around.
> > 
> > For oafd I think we should exit immediately if there are no servers
> > oafd knows about.
> 
> if you have a multiuser system with many users logged in, this doesn't
> win you anything, correct?

Yes, though I think the problem Havoc was referring to a system with a
few people logged in one time, and a large number of stale oafds from
previous logins in the background.

Thanks,
-Jonathan