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Re: How to capture a Process's PC on Alpha

2010-03-16T22:57:42Z

Arlen,
Have you tried doing a SET PROCESS/DUMP. If you have privileges, there
is always SDA (ANALYZE/SYSTEM).
What precisely do you mean by "Hung"? AST-based processes will
generally spend all of their time in HIBernate state. If you are
losing an AST, a sampling of where the program is when the problem is

How to capture a Process's PC on Alpha

2010-03-16T22:03:10Z

I have a process that occasionally hangs in a user-mode timer AST. Until I can correct the problem there is a job that watches for this condition and restarts the process. I would like to find out the PC where the process is when it hangs. Is there anyway to get the equivalent of a "show process/continuous" so I can get the PC when it is hung? It might also be good to see what device is busy and what action it is trying to perform. This process mainly does TCP connects/disconnects/read/writ es. I only have about 20 seconds to look at it, but have a job that is gathering a lot of information, but not that PC that can be modified to gather that if possible.

Re: OT: HP P*sses off China

2010-03-16T22:53:48Z

Well, the roads in my area SUCK... and I haven't see much bacon on my
breakast, lunch or dinner table. Redistribution of wealth via govern-
ment jobs -- whether they're fixing roads and infrastructure, or going
to study the mating rituals of drunken wombats -- done not increase the
GDP. Real production is real wealth. We (US) have become a nation of

Re: What kind of systems are now available?

2010-03-16T21:20:33Z

Not always. The following works fine on my system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
Kernel 2.6.9-55.ELsmp on an i686
umount: mount-2.12a
umount /mnt/x/y -l
mount -t smbfs //server/y /mnt/x/y
-l Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierar-
chy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as

Re: OT: HP P*sses off China

2010-03-16T20:48:13Z

Not quite "liquidating". China is a shrewd investor. The Yuan is now
the world currency, and the USD is tagging along.
With China having so much of its money in USD, they will want to move
those investments to other currencies (or to their own) before they
decouple the Yuan from the USD, at which point, any Chinese investment

Re: OT: HP P*sses off China

2010-03-16T21:39:46Z

Grand? 10**3? You missed the mark by, at least, 10 in the exponent!

Re: VT420 Flyback Transformer Needed

2010-03-16T19:50:49Z

SET TERM/MODEM and SET TERM/COMMSYNC handled RTS/CTS flow control. 5.5-2
would have had that because this is when I had dial-up modems on my all
mighty microvax II with DHQ-11 Q-bus boards with 8 serial ports each.
Terminal servers with modem support also supported hardware flow control.

Re: OT: HP P*sses off China

2010-03-16T19:46:31Z

They've actually begun liquidating the debt of ours they hold.
Obamma and Congress have maxed out the U.S. Visa card. Actually, they
let too many come over, with or without a visa, work for hire without
being paid prevailing wage (multiple felonies committed there), then
return without paying any U.S. taxes (multiple felonies committed here

Re: VT420 Flyback Transformer Needed

2010-03-16T18:51:41Z

Considering a 5x8 minimum size of a character and one dot space between
characters a 132 character display would be 791 pixels wide -- which
should be adequate with a 800x600 (SVGA) monitor.
Michael

Re: VT420 Flyback Transformer Needed

2010-03-16T18:24:46Z

On Mar 16, 4:57 pm, Michael Unger <spam.to.un...@spamgourmet.com >
wrote:
How many horizontal pixels do you need for a VT525 in 132-column mode?
I can't remember what the VT525 font size was in pixels, and the
Boundless site doesn't make it obvious, but I'd bet at least 5 british
pennies that a generic SVGA LCD runs out of horizontal pixels in 132-

Re: VT420 Flyback Transformer Needed

2010-03-16T19:18:11Z

The d|i|g|i|t|a|l VT525 is a small box that looks like the Multia (I
think that was it) Alpha. I'm using it with a d|i|g|i|t|a|l VRT17-HA
and I see 80 and 132 column modes without issue.

Re: VT420 Flyback Transformer Needed

2010-03-16T16:57:47Z

[Posting restricted to "comp.sys.dec" and "comp.os.vms" newsgroups]
On the Boundless website there is a note saying "Display: any SVGA
monitor, LCD displays in 80-column mode only. [...]" What are you using
-- CRT or LCD? Do you happen to know the reason for this limitation?
Michael
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Re: What kind of systems are now available?

2010-03-16T13:49:46Z

In article <hnnurb$4d...@naig.caltech.edu >,
I didn't say you couldn't break things if you tried on other systems,
only that the default on Linux is to be broken.
Probably depends on the application and what it was doing. In the case
of, say, an editor. It could give you the option to write it somewhere

Re: DEVICEFULL with 25 million free blocks

2010-03-16T12:59:12Z

(snip)

I have had problems on many systems when the free memory and/or
disk space exceeds 2GB, with program deciding that not enough
memory is available, when they needed a few MB.
Even code written not so long ago can still make the mistake of
using signed 32 bit integers in space calculations. In one case,

Re: What kind of systems are now available?

2010-03-16T12:50:51Z

(snip related to NFS where I wrote)

Well, there is also the soft mount vs. hard mount question.
Pretty much I always believe in hard mounts, but there are times
when you want to unmount and can't convince NFS to let you.
One that I remember, we sold a machine that, it turned out, still
had clients with mounted file systems.