Messages in this thread | | | Subject | ISSUE: High disk activity when starting gdb on a C++ program | From | Havard Bell <> | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:19:34 +0900 |
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[1.] High disk activity when starting gdb on a C++ program
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
I have a C++ program, which when run normally causes no abnormality. However, upon trying to debug it, incredible high disk activity occurs, and the kernel reports the following through syslogd:
[..cut..] Jan 11 10:50:53 agnesi kernel: Process: FCM (stack=c5c45ef0, task=c5c44000) Jan 11 10:50:53 agnesi kernel: [<c0108545>] [<c011b21c>] [<c010e3a4>] [<c011b2db>] [<c010e532>] [<c010e72d>] [<c0108d5b>] [<c01088b5>] [<c01087f8>] Jan 11 10:50:53 agnesi kernel: [<c0108545>] [<c011b21c>] [<c010e3a4>] [<c011b2db>] [<c010e532>] [<c010e72d>] [<c0108d5b>] [<c01088b5>] [<c01087f8>] Jan 11 10:50:53 agnesi kernel: Process: FCM (stack=c5c45ef0, task=c5c44000) Jan 11 10:50:53 agnesi kernel: Process: FCM (stack=c5c45ef0, task=c5c44000) [..cut...]
A LOT of it.
This disk activity comes when gdb is started, and stops after awhile. After that gdb runs normally and everythings seems ok.
Xosview reports paging activity during the happening.
[3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
gdb, disk activity, paging, "ticking" harddrive
[4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
Linux version 2.2.0-pre6 (root@agnesi.nasl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) (gcc version egcs-2. 91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #1 Sat Jan 9 15:42:43 JST 1999
[6.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the problem (if possible)
Starting gdb to debug a (mine) C++ program
[7.] Environment
I am running a Pentium II 400, with 128 MB RAM and a 6G HD (IDE) (from Gateway 2000). Lot's of applications running under KDE. The memory is farily full, but this kind of "swapping" never occured on 2.0.x kernels, even with the otherwise same setup.
[7.1.] Software (add the output of the ver_linux script here)
Linux agnesi.nasl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp 2.2.0-pre6 #1 Sat Jan 9 15:42:43 JST 1999 i686 unknown Kernel modules found Gnu C egcs-2.91.60 Binutils 2.9.1.0.15 Linux C Library 2.0.7 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7 Linux C++ Library 2.9.0 Procps 1.2.9 Mount 2.7l Net-tools 1.33 Kbd 0.94 Sh-utils 1.16
[7.2.] Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo):
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 398.276917 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat p se36 mmx osfxsr bogomips : 397.31
[7.3.] Module information (from /proc/modules):
[nothing from 'more /proc/modules']
[7.4.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi)
Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: HP35480A Rev: T603 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Hope this can help the forthcoming Linux 2.2.0 to stabalize. Fell free to email me for more info.
My apologize if this is a known problem that has been resolved allready.
Kind regards,
~ Hav. ____________________________________________________________________________ o Havard Bell Dept. of Environmental & Ocean Engineering The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Phone: +81-3-3812 2111 ext. 6553 113-8654 TOKYO Fax : +81-3-3815 8360 JAPAN email: HBell@glacialis.no ____________________________________________________________________________
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