From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21529 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2002 17:01:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21492 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2002 17:00:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO antiochus-fe0.ultra.net) (146.115.8.188) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2002 17:00:58 -0000 Received: from enterprise-e.rfk.com (216-164-248-80.s3064.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.248.80]) by antiochus-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n20340/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id NAA05366; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020417125559.057c1ec8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:33:00 -0000 To: "Mark Paulus" , "cygwin@cygwin.com" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: cygwin randomly pauses under Win2k In-Reply-To: <200204171655.MAA15550@acestes-fe0.ultra.net> References: <4.3.1.2.20020416121517.0575fac8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00900.txt.bz2 Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides the problem you're looking to track. I wouldn't dismiss it's potential as a solution for your problem so quickly though. strace with a much larger disk and a top-of-the- line processor is a clear win! ;-) Sorry it wasn't more help to you. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 12:56 PM 4/17/2002, Mark Paulus wrote: >Great! > >I set up a strace on the 'doit script', and the very act of >running strace seems to make everything behave as >expected. But, I can't run this thing all the time, as >strace generates a small quantity of output. >Oh well, I'll keep monitoring it for a while and see what >comes out..... > > > > >On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:17:11 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > >At 12:03 PM 4/16/2002, Mark Paulus wrote: > >>I have this wierd behaviour, and it is causing some stats that I > >>run to whack out..... > >> > >>Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps > >>pause for 1-2 MINUTES.... I have written a simple script to capture > >>this behaviour: > > > > > >If you're interested in trying to track down why you see this behavior, you > >might want to try running with strace. With it, you should be able to > >pinpoint any Cygwin internals that are in force when you see this pause. > > > > > >Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com > >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/