From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 11 23:26:19 2005
Subject: Re: 2.1.65 snapshot soon?
From: Todd Neal <tolchz at gmail dot com>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
Cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 23:31:20 -0600

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:24:06 -0700, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dmitri at unm dot edu> wrote:
...
> > Can you test and see if modifying __kluge_procbuf_delay__ fixes the problem ?
> >
> > octave:39> __kluge_procbuf_delay__=10
> > __kluge_procbuf_delay__ = 10
> >
> > Todd
> 
> Sure it does. Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dmitri.
> --
> 

Maybe it should be changed in the oct-procbuf.cc file.  By default it
is set to 0:

// Number of microseconds to delay in the parent after forking.
static int Vkluge_procbuf_delay = 0;

I'm not sure if 10 is the best value but it seemed to stop the problem
under Linux as well.

Todd