Bash using up system resources; makewhatis does not finish
Sean Sowell
sean@twin-dad.com
Fri Jun 24 13:40:00 GMT 2005
Hello ---
Am returning to Unix/Linux after a long while under the spell of Emperor Gates
and Darth Ballmer. But I'm stuck on two things. Maybe they are related?
1. In Bash, the command /usr/sbin/makewhatis does not complete - even after
thirty minutes - so I have to Ctrl-C back to a prompt.
2. Bash itself launches alright. It also completes the first two or three
commands that I invoke, albeit rather slowly (15 seconds or so for ls -l
/var/cache/man/whatis, with output redirected to a local text file).
Thereafter, Bash consumes +/- 70% of system resources on an ongoing basis, even
when it's not running anything. As soon as I exit Bash and terminate
cygwin.bat, apparent system behavior returns to normal. Relaunching Bash,
either in the same boot session or after a cold reboot, eventually results in
the same situation.
After several cold and warm reboots, and after completely reinstalling Cygwin,
this still occurs. I have gone through a significant chunk of the Users Guide
and FAQ, but nothing appears to touch directly on these problems.
I carefully read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC32 but I don't believe I
have a network share defined anywhere. On my first install, man didn't work so
I followed the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC43, and
discovered that /usr/sbin/makewhatis would not finish once launched. After the
second installation, man works fine. I found a 1784 byte copy of whatis in
c:\cygwin\bin. However, postinstall must've created it; I did not.
And, /usr/sbin/makewhatis still hangs.
The most relevant archive threads seem to be at
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00133.html and
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00650.html. However, neither one
resolves these problems.
My current cygcheck -svr is attached. Munged a few things for privacy reasons,
but will provide details off-list if need be. Nothing munged contains any
spaces. I have also attached two jpeg screenshots of the top five active
processes per Windows Task Manager. Bash is highlighted, and shows some systems
stats.
I have two versions of whatis in my Cygwin tree:
ls -l /var/cache/man/whatis gives
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 0 Jun 23 09:22 /var/cache/man/whatis
ls -l /bin gives
...
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 1784 May 4 03:12 whatis
...
These are some other ls results that might help:
ls -ld /var/cache/man gives
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Administrator Users 0 Jun 23 09:22 /var/cache/man
ls -l /usr/sbin gives
total 4746
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Administrator Users 0 Jun 23 07:33 TeXmacs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 41984 Mar 5 08:29 ab.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 4846 Mar 5 08:28 apachectl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24644 Mar 5 08:28 apxs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 22528 Sep 14 2004 badblocks.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7168 Dec 27 09:23 bigram.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 22528 Sep 14 2004 blkid.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 72192 Oct 27 2004
bonobo-activation-server.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7168 Oct 27 2004
bonobo-activation-sysconf.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 25600 Nov 10 2002 chkconfig.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 46080 May 14 14:28 clamd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 4042 Jul 18 2002 cleanup-info
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 8704 Dec 27 09:23 code.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24576 Jan 31 02:38 cron.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 107008 May 25 16:39 cygserver.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 133632 Sep 14 2004 debugfs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9723 Jul 18 2002 dpkg-divert
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 5100 Jul 18 2002 dpkg-statoverride
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 47616 Sep 14 2004 dumpe2fs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 185344 Sep 14 2004 e2fsck
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 40448 Sep 14 2004 e2image.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 80896 Sep 14 2004 e2label.exe
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator Users 0 Jun 23 01:49 emacs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 5120 Sep 14 2004 filefrag.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 80896 Jun 23 01:48 findfs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 12800 Dec 27 09:23 frcode.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 32768 Sep 14 2004 fsck.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 185344 Jun 23 01:48 fsck.ext2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 185344 Jun 23 01:48 fsck.ext3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9216 Nov 23 2004 gconf-sanity-check-2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 47616 Nov 23 2004 gconfd-2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 14848 Sep 28 2004 gnome-keyring-ask.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 54784 Oct 27 2004 gnome-vfs-daemon.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7168 Oct 29 2004 gnome_segv2.exe
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Administrator Users 4096 Jun 23 01:56 gnupg
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator Users 0 Jun 23 01:56 gnuplot
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 5120 Mar 5 08:29 httpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 46592 Apr 19 02:17 in.ftpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 11264 Apr 19 02:17 in.rexecd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 15360 Apr 19 02:17 in.rlogind.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 13312 Apr 19 02:17 in.rshd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 13312 Apr 19 02:17 in.talkd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 66048 Apr 19 02:17 in.telnetd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 10752 Apr 19 02:17 in.tftpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9728 Apr 19 02:17 in.uucpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24576 Apr 19 02:16 inetd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 13373 Jul 18 2002 install-info
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24576 Nov 15 2002 itox.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7680 Mar 5 08:29 logresolve.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7168 Sep 14 2004 logsave.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 11257 May 4 03:12 makewhatis
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 88064 Sep 14 2004 mke2fs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 88064 Jun 23 01:48 mkfs.ext2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 88064 Jun 23 01:48 mkfs.ext3.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 48128 Apr 29 12:29 mkfs.jffs2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 6144 Sep 14 2004 mklost+found.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 34304 Mar 10 13:33 portmap.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 61440 Sep 14 2004 resize2fs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 17408 Nov 10 2003 rmt.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 7168 Mar 5 08:29 rotatelogs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 73216 Apr 6 14:55 rpc.mountd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 85504 Apr 6 14:55 rpc.nfsd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 33792 Apr 6 14:55 rpc.ugidd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 35840 Mar 10 13:33 rpcinfo.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 4608 Jun 26 2002 safe_finger.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 59904 Oct 13 2004 saslauthd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 12800 Oct 13 2004 sasldblistusers2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9216 Oct 13 2004 saslpasswd2.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 32768 May 26 08:53 sftp-server.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 29184 Apr 6 14:55 showmount.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slapadd.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slapcat.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 1027072 May 4 04:04 slapd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slapdn.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slapindex.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slappasswd.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19 Jun 23 06:59 slaptest.exe ->
/usr/sbin/slapd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 62976 May 4 04:04 slurpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 140800 May 26 08:53 ssh-keysign.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 288256 May 26 08:53 sshd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 19968 Aug 27 2004 ssmtp.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9216 Jan 12 16:08 strfile.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 61952 Jun 26 2003 stunnel.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 20480 Apr 19 02:17 syslogd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 13312 Jun 26 2002 tcpd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 18944 Jun 26 2002 tcpdchk.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24064 Jun 26 2002 tcpdmatch.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 9216 Jun 26 2002 try-from.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 80896 Jun 23 01:48 tune2fs.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 6915 May 3 15:50 tzselect
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 6656 Jan 12 16:08 unstr.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 21354 Jul 18 2002 update-alternatives
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 3185 Nov 15 2002 xconv.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 140800 Nov 15 2002 xinetd.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 24064 May 3 15:50 zdump.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 45568 May 3 15:50 zic.exe
My cygwin.bat file contains:
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
Finally, as a possible workaround, I did read in the FAQ about rxvt being a
'better' console than Bash (see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC65). So I
tried to launch rxvt from the Start Menu shortcut that postinstall created.
Problem is, it won't go. The Target string is
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin rxvt -display 127.0.0.1:0.0,
starting in C:\cygwin\bin, with no shortcut key, as a normal window. It just
fails to launch, for reasons unknown.
If I can't get Bash to run smoothly, maybe rxvt would fit the bill. Either way,
I need some assistance getting things up and running.
Many thanks in advance,
Sean Sowell
www.twin-dad.com
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