Re: some problems with chpst again

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2004, Charlie Brady wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Payal Rathod wrote:
> > > With softlimit, it runs fine.
> ...
> > > But with chpst it has problems,
> ...
> > I'd suggest that you capture strace output from each instance, and see 
> > what difference there is in the system calls. Instead of "exec ...", use 
> > "exec strace -o/tmp/strace.$$ ..."
> 
> Curiosity got the better of me, so I compared the two myself (using 
> "strace .... /bin/echo foo"). There's quite a difference in system calls.

Yes, softlimit -a is different from chpst -m.  softlimit -m would be the
same.  Payal, what does
 $ chpst -vm3000000 true
say on your system?  Some operating systems do not support -a.

Regards, Gerrit.