[Bug 23235] If Xserver does not suppoer MIT-SHM, log get spammed

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Tue Feb 1 11:37:01 CST 2011


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235

--- Comment #11 from Kenneth Robinette <support at securenetterm.com> 2011-02-01 11:37:00 CST ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > I was not trolling, and this is a technical discussion.  When a subsystem such
> > as wine send thousands of needless messages over a network, network admin
> > people tend to get very upset, as they should.
> > 
> I think the amount of network traffic generated by the queries would be
> insignificant compared to the actual bitmap data. Regardless, that's still
> basically an Xlib issue, afaik there's no reason for Xlib to ask the server or
> to print that message after the first time for each connection. (And so far I
> haven't actually seen any evidence it does communicate with the server for each
> query.)

Could be.  All I know is if you configure WINE with --without-xshm the problem
goes away (a fix suggested by someone at codeweavers).  I can submit a problem
report to Apple, but figure they would just laugh.  So I guess we are stuck
with the --without-xshm solution.

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