vmstat

[Nicholas Wourms]

Chris January wrote:

>>>>>Hello Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>>Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 12:21:42 AM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>CJ> Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are there
>>>>>
>>>>>CJ> issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening?
>>>>>
>>>>>Have you tried running the procps tools on current stock dll
>>>>>(1.3.12-1) ? For me most of them seem to just hang - top, procps,
>>>>>uptime, vmstat, w... havent tried the others.
>>>>>
>>>>>Maybe this problem corelates with the fact that some of the /proc
>>>>>files no longer contain information - see below:
>>>>>Perhaps it has to do something with your last patch. I don't have time
>>>>>to look at this right now though. I can send strace if you want.
>>>>>
>>>>>The procps tools I'm using were downloaded from your site following
>>>>>their anouncement on cygwin-apps.
>>>>>
>>>>This is caused by the default alignment changing from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, as
>>>>
>>>>far as i can tell. Basically the size of structure passed to the NT system
>>>>
>>>>calls is not the size of structure the call expects, so it fails and the
>>>>program (top, uptime, etc.) gets stuck in a loop trying to read data.
>>>>I did add macros to ntdll.h to make sure the structures were aligned
>>>>correctly, but then Chris changed the alignment back so I removed them. I
>>>>
>>>>shall let Chris comment on this.
>>>>
>>>Huh?  What alignments have I changed?  Pointers please.
>>>
>>I suspect that this must have something to do with binutils.  I changed the
>>
>>alignments at David Billinghurst's suggestion to accommodate java.  If
>>this is causing problems, however, I'll change them back.
>>
>That's what I was referring to.
>
Is it possible for you to work around this?  I believe the alignment 
change is necessary for a working libgcj/gcj suite.  It would be nice to 
have both working properly...

Cheers,
Nicholas