On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:44:12PM -0700, Brad Davidson wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >But more to the point, why couldn't Cory find that info? Why didn't you > >point him to it? > > I guess I misread his level of familiarity with the subject at hand. The > fact that he was looking for the 'wchan command' didn't give me much > faith in the fact that he knew what he was doing. The wchan command, thus the mention that it wasn't on my system. I suppose it is also not on yours: http://ou800doc.caldera.com/SM_dump/wchan.html
> To further my theory, I've never run into a Linux dev who either doesn't > have the appropriate man pages installed, Who said anything about a linux dev? I would be a linux adm. > or who isn't skilled enough > with Google to find the required information on his own. What are mailing lists for? I sought information on the values of wchan. Searching for either wchan or the values didn't provide me with what I sought on either google or in the kernel source. Too many pages on google, and I didn't have enough information to filter. > I'm not sure what distro Cory's using, but the 'man' set is pretty hard > to *NOT* install, so I guess it just didn't cross my mind that he > possibly didn't have it. I use debian, but now I see my problem. I looked for select(2) and wait4(2) on a mail server in between doing other things on it. I don't have the developers manual pages there, but I do on another system. > subject, and the query "what are you trying to do?" - which BTW still > hasn't been answered. One user had written a perl script through cron that made a connection to a sql server that was hanging. The process showed a wchan of select and I wanted to see if I could determine more information about it through this method. I now know the answer is no, this process was simply waiting on an i/o handle. The problem turns out to be in DBD::Sybase. Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
