On 5/22/00 at 2:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Coppens) wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I'd appreciate suggestions re this problem. Our University's www server,
> running tclhttpd 3.0.1, has a strange behaviour: it seems to occupy
> gradually more and more memory, starting at some 5% of system memory,
> and going to 20%. (See listing at the end of this mail) After that,
> somewhere, it seems to hang (occupying 99% of CPU, not replying to requests).
>
> After a while, following a suggestion of Brent, I tried to kill -QUIT the
> tclsh to obtain a core dump, but it does not seem to respond (kill -9 works).
>
> The listing that follows is a cron script that dumps /proc/96/statm. I cannot
> find an exact definition of each field (pointers?), but even the first (total
> size) increases. And sometimes decreases.
>
> Can this be caused by a programming error of mine? I have the impression this
> is caused by some kind of buffer that doesn't get cleaned up...
Hi,
What version of Tcl are you using? Are threads enabled in your tcl installation
or not? What OS?
Byron
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