Re: Controlling the garbage collector (GC) at RT?

[Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>]

Hi Hans,

> > > It would indeed be interesting to know why the Linux kernel 
>>>kills the application rather than returning failure.
> > Sure, but how to do that? Any guidelines?
> What do you see on the console?  Anything in the system log?  Does
> strace tell you anything?
Below is the last part of "strace -f -F -i -v". It doesn't really look 
like there's anything of value?

// Martin

[pid    75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x12d15000)  = 0x12d15000
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x12d25000)  = 0x12d25000
[pid    75] [0f81126c] getpid()         = 75
[pid    75] [0f799444] kill(77, SIGPWR <unfinished ...>
[pid    76] [0f840e2c] <... poll resumed> [{fd=3, events=POLLIN, 
revents=POLLIN}
], 1, 2000) = 1
[pid    75] [0f799444] <... kill resumed> ) = 0
[pid    76] [0f81127c] getppid()        = 75
[pid    76] [0f833548] read(3, 
"\20\7/\234\0\0\0\4\17\374$0\20\7/\240$\0\0B\17\3
72j(\177"..., 148) = 148
[pid    76] [0f840e2c] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid    75] [0f799444] kill(77, SIGXCPU) = 0
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x13525000)  = 0x13525000
[pid    75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x13535000)  = 0x13535000
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x13545000)  = 0x13545000
[pid    75] [0f839834] brk(0x13d45000)  = 0x13d45000
[pid    75] [0f833558] write(1, "*** MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608\n", 29*** 
MEM CHUNK TAKEN: 8388608
) = 29
[pid    76] [0f840e2c] <... poll resumed> [{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 
2000) = 0
[pid    76] [0f840e2c] --- SIGTERM (Terminated) ---
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