Re: Frequent system crash -- with gcc3.2 (?)
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:52, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:17:32PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> [snip]
> > I notice that the process is marked as running. However I believe that
> > this is false, because there are 2 other processes running (on a 2
> > processor system) and I believe that there cannot be more than one per
> > processor. (Is that correct?):
>
> No, when STAT is marked "R", it just means that the process is on the
> ready-to-run queue in the process scheduler. Also keep in mind that top or
> ps may be task-switched between retrieving the info for one process and
> the info for the next, depending on whether it's making multiple syscalls.
> So what you see may not be a true, instantaneous process snapshot.
Thanks for the info.
>
> > F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
> > 0 1000 10112 1671 14 0 3272 1380 - R pts/2 0:00 | \_ ps axfl
> > 0 1000 10113 1671 13 0 1284 416 pipe_w S pts/2 0:00 | \_ grep R
> > 0 1000 9913 1 9 0 15988 14456 - R ? 0:02 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.3/cc1 -lang-c -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=2 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=3 -D__GXX_ABI_VERSION=102 -D__ELF__ -Dunix -D__gnu_linux__ -Dlinux -D__ELF__ -D__unix__ -D__gnu_linux__ -D__linux__ -D__unix -D__linux -Asystem=posix -D__OPTIMIZE__ -D__STDC_HOSTED__=1 -Acpu=i386 -Amachine=i386 -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__tune_i386__ -DBINDIR="/usr/lib/postgresql/bin" pg_dump.c -quiet -dumpbase pg_dump.c -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -o /tmp/ccsCFqfh.s
> [snip]
I failed to mention that, in this particular case, ps reported the
process, but kill said it did not exist. That only happens sometimes;
more usually kill works without complaining, but the process does not
die.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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