From 9c1fb7a931c3df113a19e5601be818826c3173b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Allen <bruce.allen@aei.mpg.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:32:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] We need to change the fixed 60 second interval to increasing
 intervals. When glutInit fails it prints a line (~100 chars) to stdout.  If
 it does this 60 times per hour, that's 6kB/hour.  After ten hours it will
 overflow the blob for stderr.

svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=4953
---
 api/x_opengl.C | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/x_opengl.C b/api/x_opengl.C
index bb29e82be9..50a1ade5c3 100644
--- a/api/x_opengl.C
+++ b/api/x_opengl.C
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ void xwin_graphics_event_loop() {
 	int one=1;
     static bool glut_inited = false;
     int restarted;
+    int retry_interval_sec=32;
 
     graphics_thread = pthread_self();
 
@@ -215,7 +216,8 @@ try_again:
         } else {
             // here glutInit() must have failed and called exit().
             //
-            sleep(60);
+            retry_interval_sec *= 2;
+            sleep(retry_interval_sec);
             goto try_again;
         }
     } else {