This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Hang with 1.5.18, 1.5.19 snapshot 20051029
On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Volker Quetschke wrote:
Hi!
Peter Rehley wrote:
I have a problem where a configure script is hanging. I first
saw the behavior in 1.5.18, and it's still there in the latest
snapshot. The only machines that we are seeing it hang on are
windows 2000 machines, sp4, with duel pentinum 933 mhz
processors, and using ssh to login to the machine. I haven't
been able to reproduce the problem on single processor machines
or when ssh is not used.
Under 1.5.18, the hang occurred about 1 in ten times in the
test_configure script (provided in the bash_test.tar.bz2 file.
Under the latest snapshot it's about 1 in 900.
When the hang happens it appears that a process is completed, but
still can be found in the process directory. The cmdline file
says <defunct>, but the process still shows up in the process
list (ps - ef). If I try to clean up by killing the process, the
kill command says that the process doesn't exist. The only way
that I can make the hung process go away is by using the task
manager to kill the process.
Your symptoms look familiar to our OOo build hang. I'm curious if in
your case a:
$ ls /proc/<hangpid>/fd
also cures the hang. (Sometimes this has to be issued several times.)
This didn't seem to do anything for me.....but I also did not try
several times, and now I'm having a hard time reproducing the
problem. :(
One really odd thing that I did notice on my windows 2000 machines
was that when I do a 'ps -ef' many times in a row quickly, the
test_configure script that I'm using dies...it either segfaults or I
get fork: Resource Temporarily unavailable.
Peter
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/