Re: Application launching and pasteboard slow down

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 08:24 PM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> gdomap is launched as
>
>   PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$");
>   IFFILE=${PREFIX}/etc/gdomap_if
>
>   ${GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT}/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
>
>   ${GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT}/Tools/ix86/freebsd/gdomap -a ${IFFILE}
                                                     ^^
This is not the flag to run with probing disabled, it's the one
to specify the local IP address(es) on machines with broken
networking which doesn't support interrogation of the network
interfaces.


I notice you are running on freebsd. I have heard of a version of
freebsd where the networking was broken so that you couldn't detect
that a port was in use by trying to bind to it.  This would cause
multiple copies of the servers to run, because the O/S would tell
gdomap that the old copies had died when they hadn't.

The person who had that problem fixed it by changing to another
version of the operating system where the networking was not broken.

If you want to stick with the broken O/S, you can work-around this
problem by commenting out the lines setting SO_REUSEADDR in the
GNUstep networking code.  The only drawback of this is that, if
a server is shut down, it will take a few minutes before the ip
code in the kernel will let it be restarted on the same port -
this is not usually a difficulty.