Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philapd!ssp2!pb From: pb@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Peter Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: "ps: seek error" - What does it mean? Message-ID: <424@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 16 May 89 08:25:28 GMT References: Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands Lines: 17 In article adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) writes: >Our Intel 386 box with Xenix 2.3.1 has a problem, and it is probably >one we have inflicted on ourselves. After the system is rebooted and >weeds. Maybe somebody could tell me what seeks ps does. Ps seeks to data structures in /unix file ( memory ). It reads data from for instance the user structure of each process that is running. This is done in a loop. If during this loop execution the process for which info is looked up dies, the data structures are not there any more. This causes the seek errors. I think this is also mentioned in the manual ( System administrators reference manual, topic Warning) -- # Peter Brouwer, ## # Philips TDS, Dept SSP-V2 ## voice +31 55 432523 # P.O. Box 245 ## UUCP address ..!mcvax!philapd!pb # 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands ## Internet pb@idca.tds.philips.nl