Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:40:24 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: glewis@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" Message-ID: <20090917134024.GA2350@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090917131616.GA1393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> 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>
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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? many thanks -- 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
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