_dbus_get_oom_wait magic

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 19:44 +0200, Timo Hoenig wrote:
> 
> whenever I dare to run several turns of
> 
>       * establish a connection
>       * send a message (signal or method call) to the bus
>       * close the connection
> 
> within short intervals, latter turns are really slow (roughly more than
> 500ms).
> 
> While debugging it turned out that the invocation of
> dbus_connection_dispatch()  in  _dbus_loop_dispatch  returns
> DBUS_DISPATCH_NEED_MEMORY.  Thus,  _dbus_wait_for_memory  and
> _dbus_wait_for_memory get invoked which leads to the delay of 500ms.
> 
> Now, since my system does not run out of memory, I am wondering if there
> is some bug in the  dbus_connection_dispatch  routine which I am not
> able to understand to its full extend.

Sounds likely; NEED_MEMORY should only happen if there's no memory... I
don't know of a bug like this though. The way to debug is to look at the
verbose log.

Havoc