hi,
Subject title was: " Someone with a good command construct ?? "
On Sat, 23 May 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
hi,
Not been well lately, and I have not done much clever thinking. And so, - was the idea without any purpose at all ?
Maybe if you explained what you're trying to do, someone may have an answer. I've read your original post about this several times and I still don't get it. Try to reduce the problem to its essentials and state it succinctly.
poc
I tried to craft together some command, "strace -o /dev/null -p `pgrep Xorg`". But this could be done better.
Here it will write to /dev/null, but it will also write a message on your screen when it does so. It is actually this message I found interesting to use.
What I believe it may tell me is:
a) when Xorg die b) when a thead die c) - some indication of the reason
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What I have found is that memory structures get trashed. Xorg seem to write to parts it should leave alone, etc. ( some memory management is missing )
I am running 64bit AMD with ati-radeon.
So far, I have seen how this little command seem to report when/why some of the problems occur.
Would like some improvement:
Pseudo code: loop if not "monitor" attached, write output to file, increment error-counter, attach monitor, endif always
( "monitor" being: strace -o /dev/null -p `pgrep Xorg` )
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Some may have some clever idea as how to accomplish this.
The *important* point would be if it could be of use for more then myself, and perhaps uncover some of the obstacles we struggle with.
//ARNE