Your message dated Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:44:08 +1100
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and subject line Re: Bug#575369: proc library doesnt detect _FILE_OFFSET_BITS,
results in partial process list
has caused the Debian Bug report #575369,
regarding proc library doesnt detect _FILE_OFFSET_BITS, results in partial
process list
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Package: procps
Version: 3.2.7-11
When using ps or top on a vps debian server pids > 65535 do not display.
Recompiling procps with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 solved this issue on that
particular machine. The errors source is a readdir() call in
readproc.c:simple_readproc(). I thought it might just be a quirk of the
machine, but since the ls application could correctly readdir() and find these
pids i thought the ps command should be able to as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.028stab066.10 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-61 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:30:34AM -0700, Erik Bernhardson wrote:
> Recompiling procps with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 solved this issue on that
> particular machine. The errors source is a readdir() call in
> readproc.c:simple_readproc(). I thought it might just be a quirk of the
> machine, but since the ls application could correctly readdir() and find
> these pids i thought the ps command should be able to as well.
This is not used by default because on a stock Debian computer you don't
have pids that go above 32768. The problem is that not only do you need
to set this macro, which is pretty simple, but you need to re-arrange
all the real-estate of programs, to take into account the larger string
length of the pid values. Of course for pids up to 99999 we're fine,
but above that you need to move things around.
Bug #469600 was a duplicate of this bug, or close enough to it. You can
see some of the discussion at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469600
which had the same suggested (simple) fix, with the same problems too.
For the same reasons listed in that bug report, I'm closing this one.
- Craig
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