[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE 1.20 and updated GTK+3 for hipster (part II)

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 30/10/2018 16:46, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
>
>
> On 10/30/18 16:28, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> P.S: During this e-mail writing, number of file grew further:
>>>> $ find /var/cache/fontconfig/ -type f | wc -l
>>>> 526905
>>>>
>>> man fam:
>>> ...
>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>       FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, is a subsystem that applications can
>>>       use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed.  It
>>>       is intended as a replacement for mechanisms such as poll and select.
>>> ....
>>>
>>> So indeed that potentially can have something to do with your
>>> problem if the process polluting your cache wants the FAM service
>>> and doesn't get it and then falls back to something insane.
>>
>> Recent illumos has added Linux compatibility functions to support LX Zone
>> functionality and these compatibility functions might be picked up and used by
>> accident by software which targets Linux.  I don't know if there is an
>> emulation of inotify(7) but it seems like something important to emulate for
>> LX Zones.
>>
>> Regardless, the Dtrace Toolkit provides scripts (opensnoop and iosnoop) which
>> allows observing all I/O activity on the system and so it should quickly
>> reveal the offender.
>>
>> Bob
> Hi,
>
> no idea how I have missed opensnoop (probably because iosnoop I have tried was
> useless):
> $ /opt/DTT/Bin/iosnoop
>   UID   PID D    BLOCK   SIZE       COMM PATHNAME
> ...
>     0   381 W 275526024  32768 zpool-pz512 <none>
>     0   381 W 283297216  32768 zpool-pz512 <none>
>  2903 28881 R 256458773   7168 thunderbird <none>
>  2903 28881 R 256795291   6656 thunderbird <none>
>     0   381 W 322684424   4096 zpool-pz512 <none>
>
> BUT, opensnoop showed guilty processes: firefox and thunderbird (which explains
> no data increase, when logged off): Example
>
>  2903  28883 firefox       53
> /var/cache/fontconfig/d937d800-0615-4b33-a228-a4e53ca4493d-le32d4.cache-7
>  2903  28883 firefox       53
> ...
> Any suggestion?


This one ?
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411338>

-- 
Dr.Udo Grabowski   Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT
http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php
KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology           http://www.kit.edu
Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026