Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mailing lists" <> | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:13:47 +0200 | Subject | Re: procps still NG w/ pre-9 |
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In message <19990123111253.E16884@turtle.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> Harald Koenig writes:
>On Jan 22, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: >> >> > All, >> > >> > Even with Stephen Tweedie's patch applied, I'm seeing everything as 'end' >> > in WCHAN. This is on a RH 5.2 install (props-1.2.9). >> > >> > Steve >> > >> I just installed Red Hat on a PC at home. I had this same problem. >> The version of procps that RH uses, apparently doesn't use the >> /etc/psdatabase any more (which you update with `psupdate`). Instead >> it expects to see /boot/System.map and read its symbols directly. >> Therefore, you must copy ../linux/System.map to /boot.
>doesn't matter! even with correct System.map file I get only empty WCHAN fields >with 2.2.0-final too:
> # ps lp 1 > FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND > 100 0 1 0 0 0 824 64 S ? 0:04 init [2] > ^^^^^^^ >with strace clearly showing that it's using the correct map:
> open("/boot/System.map-2.2.0-final", O_RDONLY) = 3
Yes, its true. Look for my letter about this. In 2.2.0-9 in file /proc/pid#/stat field which indicate WCHAN _always_ zero. For now I have not enough time to look kernel sources about this.
SY, Stanislav Voronyi.
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