From: Feng Chin Sian (feng.sian@interchange.com.br)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 14:58:59 EDT
Dear list,
Our manager has found the culprit. Someone has set some weird memory
config settings in the /etc/system. Kicking them out and rebooting our
server has solved the problem.
I wish to thanks Darren for his help.
Em Seg, 2004-09-20 `s 15:30, Darren Dunham escreveu:
> > Thanks for the suggestion.=20
> >
> > I ran it and, for my surprise, it creeped with the attached output.
> > Could you help me with the analysis?
>
> All I'd do is look for a segfault in the output and see which process it
> belonged to.
>
> If it didn't segfault, I'd wonder if you were running it the same
> way... Do either of these segfault on your machine?
>
> % cat script.csh
> set LALA =3D "`ps -ef | grep XPTO | grep -v grep`"
> echo $LALA
> % csh script.csh
> % truss -f -o /tmp/out csh script.csh
>
>
> > ... (zilllions of the last two lines)
> >
> > 165: close(16377) Err#9 EBADF
>
> Unfortunately, you've trimmed the first lines of 165. That would
> determine which process it was.
>
> > 185: brk(0x0006C000) = 0
> > 185: execve("/bin/ps", 0x00062134, 0xEFFFF9C8)
> > 185: *** cannot trace across exec() of /bin/ps ***
>
> Hmm. That's annoying. I wonder why. I don't seem to have similar
> problems on a Solaris 8 machine. Are you running this as root or
> non-root?
>
> Try it as root if you can.
>
> > 165: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x000283E8
> > 165: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000008
> > 165: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
> > 165: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000008
> > 165: *** process killed ***
>
> And we see here that 165 is the one that segfaults.
>
> I'm wondering if 165 has an exec line near it's beginning that points to
> a particular executable being run.
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