From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MyD6o-0000FI-5z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:18:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96867E08A5; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0BFE08A5 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so405383fxm.14 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:18:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=K55SzPjukpBV5OSxpP+GKO1Eshn1Q+/DbE8fuj9drJo=; b=EtbI2iP6qzjiUA/jStCDJUEpma3ATP6QyE5kK+Zins3XpyTnTnDBoBaMDMaksc3HRH D7TPzXB8ycJ+bfQxSWLx0BM1NNhKa7fviVozqH8Y1mRFNDYk2wfWWW/ey8AqIT8NmCc7 tW4/1PQNhMIyK4WmuyiNM7Fq49NPWT9dPtA5Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=XwVKEGW4Uaj0moYp6F3wWfqEDr7mufesDgeXos07dNHmxyclEg8w1XOtDwAgZ/kAD9 MQfhTWEveMS5X5BaqD9kbxTvDCoS5paChqGwuNkhRHOizCurc1P7M+wyO6D+nj+lCwcV tZ1gjk4TabGGCDwavuJC18Bv4IMrx61rKvLbw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.163.205 with SMTP id q13mr682496hbd.132.1255562295139; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:18:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1255559604.13674.89.camel@rattus> References: <4AD4C011.4040701@gmail.com> <200910132152.09910.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AD596EE.90605@gmail.com> <1255559604.13674.89.camel@rattus> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:18:15 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? From: Denis To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 512ae448-ee33-4506-aadf-e2cca12f8685 X-Archives-Hash: 06ed0a2c4cb071d48c0a21cf50cc1961 > Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies? > > BillK I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it: ===================================== poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 709869}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1255560657, 709891}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 709945}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 710025}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1255560657, 710046}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{";\0\5\0o\5 \1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\202\4$\0;\0\5\0!\0 \1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 2204}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 2204 read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{"=\0\4\0|\5 \1\2\0\16\0\v\0)\4>\4\7\0w\5 \1|\5 \1.\3 \1\0"..., 100}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 100 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}]) read(10, "\6\0pa\23\4\t\1I\2\0\0|\5 \1\0\0\0\0\6\5\315\0\6\0`\0\0\1\1\0\16"..., 4096) = 96 read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) gettimeofday({1255560657, 718652}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{";\0\5\0o\5 \1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\202\4$\0;\0\5\0!\0 \1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 640}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 640 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}]) read(10, "\6\0\335a\34\4\t\1I\2\0\0|\5 \1\0\0\0\0\6\5\314\0\6\0_\0\0\1\1\0\1"..., 4096) = 64 read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{"8\0\4\0o\5 \1\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0>\4\7\0\3\6 \1\202\5 \1o\5 \1\0"..., 48}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 48 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN}]) read(10, "\16$\364a\202\5 \1\0\0>\n\0\371\34\10\361\207\t\10\320n1\n\332\0o\0}\3~\0\1"..., 4096) = 64 read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) gettimeofday({1255560657, 723910}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 723992}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1255560657, 724014}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 724068}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) poll([{fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1255560657, 724148}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1255560657, 724181}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{";\0\5\0o\5 \1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\202\4$\0;\0\5\0!\0 \1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 1536}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 1536 read(10, 0x9d67130, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLOUT}]) writev(10, [{"=\0\4\0|\5 \1\2\0\16\0\v\0)\4>\4\7\0w\5 \1|\5 \1.\3 \1\0"..., 100}, {NULL, 0}, {""..., 0}], 3) = 100 poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=10, revents=POLLIN|POLLHUP}]) read(10, ""..., 4096) = 0 close(2) = 0 dup2(20, 2) = 2 write(2, "XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource"..., 79) = 79 write(2, " after 90691 requests (90613"..., 77) = 77 exit_group(1) = ? ===================================== Does this make any sense to anyone?