From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <58c9b7013b68f3902cb73b4baa9ef25e@plan9.ucalgary.ca> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] more fossil woes From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca In-Reply-To: <2f8e0f32e814c7198926c7687a719d73@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:35:13 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86921d0e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> assert failed: b->nlock == 1 >> fossil 44: suicide: sys: trap: fault read addr=0x0 pc=0x0002b6b7 > > I believe I have just fixed this bug. Jmk caught one and held it down for me. > Sources are there now, binary tomorrow. Several months ago I offered an 8 megabyte log of fossil crashing with this problem while running in debug mode. Could've been helpful, but I'm glad you fixed it :) > >> It was the first crash in a long time, but unfortunately I had no way of >> finding out who/what had caused it, because Plan 9 does not allow me to >> examine process' activity based on utilization of a particular resource. > > I don't understand what you mean here. What query would you have > asked the system to help isolate the problem? Something similar to lunix' "top" command -- what process is taking the most out of a particular resource. It can be done currently for things like memory usage and cputime, but it's a bit difficult when I want to know which process used the most out of the cpu in the last second. Things like interrupts and most of what stats(8) displays are good to link with process ids too. (Just realized that I could possibly deduce the most active process from its scheduling priority. I need to look into that.) >> (Interestingly enough, when I suggested such "features" are added to the >> system there was an outrage, especially from people who never use Plan 9, >> telling me I'm just polluting the beautiful system :)... > > And I definitely don't understand what you mean here. > I have all sorts of trippy acid to look at who is using > what. If you identified an interesting set of questions > that could be answered by exporting some kernel information > in a new format, I would be all ears. There are a certain type of people who like Plan 9 for what (they think) it stands for (being the anti-lunix) and not for what it is (a decent OS which is comfortable to work with, if a bit spartan). This comment was directed to them "don't want any features in Plan 9; frame the source and put it on the wall" people :) andrey