Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/17/14:07:12
Ah yes. My instructor for our Advanced Unix course
was always fond of stating: "It is perfectly acceptable
to smother your performance problems with hardware."
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:59:10 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>Yep. That's the occasional detriment of strace. It hides the problem you're
>looking to track. I wouldn't dismiss it's potential as a solution for your
>problem so quickly though. strace with a much larger disk and a top-of-the-
>line processor is a clear win! ;-)
>
>Sorry it wasn't more help to you.
>
>Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
>RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
>838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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>
>
>At 12:56 PM 4/17/2002, Mark Paulus wrote:
>>Great!
>>
>>I set up a strace on the 'doit script', and the very act of
>>running strace seems to make everything behave as
>>expected. But, I can't run this thing all the time, as
>>strace generates a small quantity of output.
>>Oh well, I'll keep monitoring it for a while and see what
>>comes out.....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:17:11 -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>
>> >At 12:03 PM 4/16/2002, Mark Paulus wrote:
>> >>I have this wierd behaviour, and it is causing some stats that I
>> >>run to whack out.....
>> >>
>> >>Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps
>> >>pause for 1-2 MINUTES.... I have written a simple script to capture
>> >>this behaviour:
>> >
>> >
>> >If you're interested in trying to track down why you see this behavior, you
>> >might want to try running with strace. With it, you should be able to
>> >pinpoint any Cygwin internals that are in force when you see this pause.
>> >
>> >
>> >Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
>> >RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
>> >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>> >Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>> >
>> >
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