topic Re: Glance Help. in Operating System - HP-UX

Glance Help.

brian_31 — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:04:10 GMT

Hi Team:

Any glance experts out there. I am having a runaway process and i am looking into it. When i do L to look into the system calls it says retreiving Pl. wait and hangs for ever. So i decided to look into the Global system calls and i have this..

Call name ID Count Rate CPUtime Cumcpu
sigprocmask 161 258636 49972.6 1.89760 7.800

What should i make out of this?
This keeps Changing. Please help me understand this.

Thanks & Regards
Brian.

Re: Glance Help.

Martin Johnson — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:29:09 GMT

sigprocmask examines and changes blocked signals.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90682/B2355-90682_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90682/00/01/192-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90682/00/01/192-toc.html&searchterms=sigprocmask&queryid=20020625-123449

HTH
Marty

Re: Glance Help.

Rahul Mehta — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:14:17 GMT

Try using command ipcs
it will try to tell you if it has any problem with memory, leaks

Re: Glance Help.

brian_31 — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:56:15 GMT

Hi:

Thanks for your time. But i am not sure what to make out of this. OR Am i asking a wrong group? If so could comeone direct me the right group for these kind of questions(especially about system calls)

Thanks
Brian.

Re: Glance Help.

Martin Johnson — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:08:07 GMT

Your system is spending a lot of time processing blocked signals. That is not normal. If your runaway process is a vendor process, I would open a support call with the vendor.

HTH
Marty

Re: Glance Help.

brian_31 — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:15:45 GMT

Hi Martin:

Thanks. The Process belongs to an xmotif application. The appln. is launched from PC using xemulator. Now if they processing blocked signals what should they do ideally.

Thanks
Brian.

Re: Glance Help.

Martin Johnson — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:19:57 GMT

I have seen the type of behavior you are experiencing when a network link is abnormally terminated (like a user turning off his PC without shutting down all the running apps).

Recycling the app on the server usually clears up the problem.

HTH
Marty