mpt timed out and Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9"
Anton Shterenlikht
mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Sep 17 13:57:48 UTC 2009
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
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