From: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@forcix.cx>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 17561@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17561: Emacs can forget processes
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 20:27:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140527202756.7bade0ce@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5383D535.2000407@cs.ucla.edu>
On Mon, 26 May 2014 16:58:45 -0700
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Jorgen Schaefer wrote:
> > the-bug.txt.gz ... shows the strace of a
> > running Emacs session which starts to exhibit the bug, so we now
> > have a trace that includes the time when the bug actually happens.
> > It shows me starting Python subprocesses (elpy RPC processes) and
> > killing them, in an attempt to reproduce the problem. Eventually,
> > this succeeds, and Emacs goes into the loop reading from fd 15.
>
> Thanks for that trace; it's helpful. A couple of things. First,
> what platform are you running on, exactly? I'm running on an AMD
> Phenom II X4 910e (according to /proc/cpuinfo), and using Fedora 20
> x86-64 (Linux kernel 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64, glibc 2.18), and
> compiling with GCC 4.9.0.
Thanks for making me check that. There was a bit of a wtf there for
me :-D The strace is from an OpenVZ virtual host:
Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Linux kernel 3.2.41-042stab085.20
eglibc 2.13
Note the embedded glibc.
I have seen a similar behavior (Emacs suddenly responding badly,
improving once processes are killed) on this type of system:
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Linux kernel 3.4.63-2.44-desktop
glibc-2.15
gcc 4.7.1
But I can't know for sure if it's the same bug.
> Second, looking at the-bug.txt I'm suspicious about the interaction
> between vfork, pthread_sigmask (aka rt_sigprocmask) and rt_sigreturn.
> Could you please try building Emacs with fork rather than vfork and
> see whether that fixes the problem? If it fixes things, great; if
> not I'd like to see another strace of the bug. To use fork instead
> of vfork, you can run "./configure ac_cv_func_fork_works=no", or
> (faster but flimsier) edit src/config.h to add "#define fork vfork".
Should that be ac_cv_func_vfork_works=no? I have no recompiled Emacs
with the latter change, and it's using clone(2) to execute processes,
which sounds right. I haven't been able to reproduce the bug so far,
sadly that doesn't say much, I have gone for over a week before without
noticing the bug until it reappeared.
Regards,
Jorgen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-27 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-23 15:52 bug#17561: 24.4.50; Emacs can forget processes Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-23 16:28 ` bug#17561: " Paul Eggert
2014-05-23 16:44 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-24 23:01 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-25 7:57 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-26 17:08 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-26 18:49 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-26 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-27 18:27 ` Jorgen Schaefer [this message]
2014-05-27 21:42 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-27 22:16 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-28 0:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-28 20:53 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-28 23:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-28 23:35 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 1:22 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-29 10:08 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 23:15 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-29 4:17 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-29 11:39 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 15:09 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-29 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-29 15:26 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-29 17:03 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 17:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-29 18:23 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 19:06 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-29 20:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-29 19:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-30 6:07 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-30 20:41 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-05-30 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-27 4:05 ` Paul Eggert
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