Re: gconfd process eating CPU

Joerg Barfurth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.gconf
Organization Sun Microsystem - Star Office
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ghee Seng Teo wrote:
>>> Aside from running strace or truss for every single user on the 
>>> system and waiting for one to hang, is there an easier way?  Is
>>> there any way to tell what file descriptor is causing the problem
>>> once the process has hung?
>>> 

>> Yes, run strace on the sick process and it will at least let us 
>> know if the problem is what I suggested.
>> 

>    The equivalent of strace on Solaris is called truss. In fact, you can
> get pfiles to see the list of file descriptors for the run away process.
> However, getting a strace output after it hung would give you very
> little history.
> 

If it not just hanging but looping and "eating CPU" (see subject), then 
a strace/truss may yield usable data.

Ciao, Jörg

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Joerg Barfurth              Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg
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