On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:27 -0600
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage(a)peaknet.net> wrote:
Stan,
I don't think the problem is thrashing. top in the F2 console:
top - 15:00:22 up 1 day, 17:39, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
0.00 Tasks: 77 total, 1 running, 74 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2
zombie CPU(s): 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 510192k total, 493620k used, 16572k
free, 133120k buffers Swap: 1049528k total, 492100k used,
557428k free, 77424k cached
Every 20-30 seconds 'hald-addon-stor' pops up in the list of COMMAND
tasks. Less frequently I'll see 'hald' and 'anaconda' appear for one
top cycle.
I think you are right. :-)
<engineer-geek>
It would be neat to know how to zoom in and watch anaconda at work. I
may have a rare opportunity here to, with expert guidance, gain some
insights into how anaconda actually works at the molecular level. If
it's possible to alter/repair its operation while running, that
ability could be of real value to remote installers.
</engineer-geek>
--Doc
Can't help you with that. If it was C you could attach gdb to it, but
I don't think anaconda (python) has that option available, but maybe
someone knows how to do it.