[Pan-users] Re: freeze, high CPU getting new headers

[walt]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:55:34 +0000, Matthijs Benschop wrote:

> Op Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:30:56 +0000, schreef Duncan:
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>> Two things would be nice.  1) Timestamps on either/both the strace and
>> the gdb, do either of them support that?  Then we could see how long
>> it's spending on the poll before returning, for instance.  2)  Is there
>> a way to query the system for the path of a fd from another process
>> (with sufficient privs, of course, to prevent cross-user leaks)?  It'd
>> sure be nice to find out what that fd it's cycling on is, for sure.  Of
>> course, one could get it if they traced pan from startup, but that'd be
>> a HUGE trace to worth thru by the time it hung.
> 
> Okay, I've updated my webspace with strace7 to 9. All of them with
> timestamps (strace -r). There is also a corresponding lsof file which
> monitors every open file. The fd's are on the bottom lines.
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~benscho9/pan/
> 
> btw, how much of these freezes could be related to my segfaults? Perhaps
> I should make a strace about that too?

I completely forgot about the segfaults :o(  Most likely it is related,
probably something to do with the tree widget, I think.  This is where
gdb shines -- just get a backtrace after pan segfaults and that should
tell us a great deal.