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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:34:17
Message-Id: 4AD65FF2.1040502@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? by Denis
1 Denis wrote:
2 >> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
3 >>
4 >> BillK
5 >>
6 >
7 > I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of
8 > polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can
9 > see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it:
10 >
11 > << SNIP >>
12 >
13 > Does this make any sense to anyone?
14 >
15 >
16 >
17
18 OK, first off. I have no clue what this program does. I'm shooting in
19 the dark here. I found this:
20
21 http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2001/Dec/msg00034.html
22
23 It seems you are not alone. I browsed though a couple other places and
24 saw people mentioning python a bit. Does this software use python by
25 any chance?
26
27 I also noticed a lot of talking about I/O issues. Are you sure and for
28 certain that you have the right chip set compiled for your hard drive?
29 I ran into a lot of errors once and I had the wrong chip set selected in
30 my kernel and although it was trying to work, it didn't work very well
31 when there was a lot of I/O activity. Programs would crash and in the
32 Konsole I would get all sorts of errors including the plan old seg fault
33 type.
34
35 Again, read the first three sentences. Just thinking and typing and
36 that is dangerous for me. ;-)
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-) :-)