On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: > [...] >> > To get around the problem >> > pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is >> changing >> > >> > and get a closer look, try stopping the process >> first: >> > >> > pstop 5608 >> > >> > and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it, >> and finally running >> > >> > prun 5608 >> > >> > to let it run again. >> >> Why is pmap not doing this? > > I don't know. I (a) don't work for Sun, and (b) only run > OpenSolaris under VirtualBox on an Intel Mac Mini (my other > systems are SPARC and running Solaris 9, and Solaris SXCE snv_97, > respectively). So just starting OpenSolaris under VirtualBox uses > about all the time I'm willing to spend getting my answer right > on anything but the most interesting problems. I would _guess_ that > either using the -F option might also help > > -F Force. Grabs the target process even if > another process has control.
-F has no effect. >> We're still verifying the output because the script >> finished in four >> hours while the legacy perl version of the script >> used to run a whole >> weekend. >> This is suspicious and too good to be true. We are done with the verification of the data and did not find any problems so far. > Maybe, maybe not. If the rewrite also improved the algorithm > or implementation, that's entirely possible. Also, a lot of perl > scripts run more external programs than they really ought to. > Recent ksh93 has a lot of built-in commands that used to require > running external programs. Is there any documentation about this feature? > So for any of various reasons, such > an improvement, although suspicious, doesn't seem at all impossible > to me. (It also leaves me thinking that perhaps with enough effort, > further improvements might be possible.) OK. We'll have a look. Yves _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
