From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 17 13:57:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F87106566B; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:57:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE098FC17; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoHUW-0006NZ-33; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:46 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MoHUV-0005zw-C7; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:43 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8HDvhJ7001041; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8HDvhBl001040; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:43 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Anton Shterenlikht Message-ID: <20090917135743.GA1013@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090914153728.GA60162@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090914154241.GA60268@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090914172233.GA69286@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090917123404.GA101@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090917131616.GA1393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090917134024.GA2350@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090917134024.GA2350@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -4.7 X-Spam-Level: ---- Cc: Roland Smith , glewis@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: mpt timed out and Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:57:48 -0000 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:40:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:16PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:34:04PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > It could be that the process is stuck in the 'D' state (uninterruptable wait). > > > > You can veryfiy that by running 'ps -u' and looking in the eight column when > > > > gnuplot is running. > > > > > > > > Does the window with the plot actually appear? > > > > > > > > Interactive use of gnuplot-4.2.6 is fine on amd64 7.2-RELEASE-p2. > > > > > > I reinstalled gnuplot-4.2.6 and (hopefully) all ports on which it depends. > > > I still get the same behaviour. > > > > > > top -PISu shows: > > > > > > last pid: 108; load averages: 0.88, 0.35, 0.19 up 2+02:23:38 13:27:52 > > > 109 processes: 4 running, 88 sleeping, 17 waiting > > > CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle > > > CPU 1: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 100% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle > > > Mem: 105M Active, 2074M Inact, 363M Wired, 768K Cache, 827M Buf, 5322M Free > > > Swap: 19G Total, 19G Free > > > > > > PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > > > 11 0 2 171 ki31 0K 64K RUN 0 77.9H 100.00% idle > > > 99992 1001 2 48 0 98240K 55608K CPU1 1 0:00 100.00% gnuplot > > > > > > so gnuplot is using 100% and all in system state. > > > > > > and ps -u: > > > > > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > > > mexas 99992 98.1 0.7 98240 55608 5 R+ 1:25pm 0:00.72 gnuplot > > > > > > so the state is not "D". > > > > > > The window does appear (just using simple gnuplot> plot sin(x), and > > > the terminal is set to 'wxt', but nothing ever apears in the window. > > > > The wxt terminal is only available when gnuplot is compiled with the wxWidgets > > toolkit. Try using the plain x11 terminal, and see if that works better? > > yes, that works fine! Thank you! > > So the problem must be with wxgtk2-2.8.10_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.8.10_1 ? > > How can I kill the offending gnuplot process? On reboot I see this on the console: System shutdown time has arrived Stopping cron. Stopping sshd. Stopping ntpd. Stopping devd. Writing entropy file:mpt0: request 0xa0000000000d2140:52792 timed out for ccb 0x e000000019ece800 (req->ccb 0xe000000019ece800) mpt0: completing timedout/aborted req 0xa0000000000d2140:52792 mpt0: Timedout requests already complete. Interrupts may not be functioning. Sep 17 14:49:59 mech-cluster241 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Sep 17 14:49:59 init: timeout expired for /bin/sh on /etc/rc.shutdown: Interrupt ed system call; going to single user mode Sep 17 14:50:19 init: some processes would not die; ps axl advised Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...3 1 2 I'm a bit worried about mpt0 messages - this is the SCSI driver. Does this indicate a problem with mpt? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423