Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:22:33 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: glewis@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" Message-ID: <20090914172233.GA69286@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090914154241.GA60268@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090914153728.GA60162@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090914154241.GA60268@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:42:41PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > on ia64 HEAD, gnuplot-4.2.6, any plot command > > hangs the program. top shows gnuplot is using 100% of CPU, > > yeat CPU time is zero: > >=20 > > PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMM= AND > > 60071 1001 2 48 0 98008K 51424K CPU1 1 0:00 100.00% gnu= plot > >=20 > > kill -9 60071, either from my account, or from root, > > has no effect, the process is still there. > >=20 > > I cannot find a way to terminate this hanged process without reboot. > >=20 > > This seems to be a regression. >=20 > running gnuplot in batch (non-interactive) mode seems fine, so > the problem seems to be with the screen terminal. >=20 > I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that I cannot kill the process.. It could be that the process is stuck in the 'D' state (uninterruptable wai= t). You can veryfiy that by running 'ps -u' and looking in the eight column when gnuplot is running.=20 Does the window with the plot actually appear? =20 Interactive use of gnuplot-4.2.6 is fine on amd64 7.2-RELEASE-p2. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkque9kACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXI9gCePHtRDUMNPNNKQuJLJA4uPzsa vUEAnibliv/6girC5eza19mRGUCdwh5I =fpyt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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