Re: dialog run away processes
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:35:43PM -0800, Noah wrote: Hi there, sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of 'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines. any clues what creates this situation and how I can circumvent the problem? It appears to happen around the time I run portmanager to update all the system ports. dialog is interactive. Sometimes it's possible to start dialog (or other interactive process) and disconnect the terminal input. Then (depending on how errors are handled), it tries repeatedly to read input. (that's addressed in the version of dialog which I maintain, but FreeBSD has, iirc, a variant from long ago which isn't strictly compatible). http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpiwAXoYEr69.pgp Description: PGP signature
dialog run away processes
Hi there, sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of 'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines. any clues what creates this situation and how I can circumvent the problem? It appears to happen around the time I run portmanager to update all the system ports. I am running 6.2-RELEASE-p11 Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: dialog run away processes
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:35:43 -0800, Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of 'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines. any clues what creates this situation and how I can circumvent the problem? It appears to happen around the time I run portmanager to update all the system ports. I am running 6.2-RELEASE-p11 Idea: The dialog utility is used to create a menu driven configuration dialog for ports where options for the compilation process can be selected. Maybe such dialogs are started during the updating process controlled by portmanager? Check if some kind of batch job can explicitely be ordered for the portmanager update run. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
