[Xastir-dev] Re: Another case of high load

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> So it all IP network traffic. When I deny access to the network in
> ZoneAlarm I see that Xastir tries to connect to port 1314 over and over;
> this is Festival.

That port number makes sense.


> I recompliled Xastir without Festival support but it doesn't make a
> difference. Obviously Xastir does not try to connect to Festival anymore,
> but now Xastir tries to connect to some another ports for some reason. I've
> seen ports 3517, 3588, 3990, 4419 etc. I have no idea why, when I deny
> access in the Firewall Xastir does keep running so it doesn't seem to be
> needed in order to function.

Do you have Festival server up and running?  If so, those might be
connects from Xastir to the Festival server port.  If you have
Xastir's server port up and running, those might be connections from
some other process (another Xastir?  Telnet?) to the Xastir server
port.


> After I deny Xastir network access the CPU load is gone. ZoneAlarm only
> shows network activity when something needs to be displayed. It looks like
> the threads that make IP connections need to be slowed down using yet
> another micro-sleep or a more clever implementation.

It's possible that we need some sleeps in the Festival connect code.
Is anyone else seeing problems like this?  On non-Cygwin systems?


> By the way, Xaster's version number says 1.4.0, does this mean it is
> released now?

Nope.  Just preparing for release.  Once the release goes out, the
development CVS will get bumped up to 1.4.1.

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