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[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:56:19PM -0700, Christian Thibodeau wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:07, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   I got it, will try to reproduce this today. Still I puzzled,
> > I don't see anything in the code which could explain why the cache
> > state can influence the rendering, *except* if it is a bug raised
> > under load condition, then rebuilding the cache generates a lot
> > of I/O though the rpm database, which added to the load associated to
> > starting the desktop might create the conditions to raise that problem.
> > If it's a race condition in the inter-process communication interface
> > between the applet and the applet container running in the toolbar then
> > having a lot of I/O might generate proper condition for the problem.
> >   It would be interesting to see if you get the same problem with little
> > load, for example once in the session, assuming the applet didn't display
> > correctly, what happen if you kill the applet and restart it with
> >    "killall rhn-applet-gui ; rhn-applet-gui &"
> > is the display still broken ?
> 
> I also get the broken rhn applet display. Since I have only installed
> severn today I cannot say if it is intermittent or not. I have a
> .rhn-applet.cache file, which has 644 permissions and is of size 243689.
> 
> Running "killall rhn-applet-gui ; rhn-applet-gui &" did fix the applet.
> 
> I don't seem to be able to get it to break again tho'; I've only tried a
> couple of things; logging out/in and rebooting.
> 
> This is on a Dell Optiplex GXa 266Mhz processor / 64Mb memory.
> 
> BTW, this also happens to me on my Shrike box at home a 333Mhz/192Mb
> system. There is is intermittent.

  This tend to confirm my hypothesis that this is related to load, especially
if rebuilding the cache on a first start, a relatively slow machine or low
memory conditions might exacerbate the problem ...

   thanks for the report !

Daniel

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