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- From: darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sysv386,biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: [SCO] execvp(2) seems to fail on shell scripts!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.052457.193@rock.concert.net>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 05:24:57 GMT
- References: <PETRI.WESSMAN.93Jan11182858@lk-hp-21.hut.fi>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Gestapo Aerobics
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- Test your available swap with a "vmstat -s" - I'll bet you find it to be
- "going where the woodbine twineth"; i.e. vanishing- and I dunno why either.
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- Just do a script that goes:
- while true
- do
- vmstat -s
- done
-
-
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- Do this on a terminal/multiscreen and check it from time to time. The problem
- is probably in SCO's clumsy implemenation of the "malloc" function.
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- If you run this test, and notice swap vanish, let me know. There are ways
- around it.
-
- 'Shot
-