Chris, et al -- ...and then Christopher S. Swingley said... % % David, % % > OK, so when I said "Any ideas are welcome" I really meant about this % > particular instantiation :-) % % Well, it won't tell you much about memory, but you can see what system % functions are being called inside the program by using the 'strace'
Hmmm... Hokay. % program. Once you've found the process ID number with 'top' or 'ps' That part is easy. % you can type 'strace -p PID' and it'll show you what's happening. Thanks. % Unfortunately, it won't show you much about memory, and in fact when % I just ran this command on my current mutt process, it was pretty % clear that mutt wasn't doing much of anything at the system level % until I switched folders / opened email / etc. OK. I haven't switched folders at all, but I certainly read and write mail. I'll see what that gets me. % % Assuming you built mutt with -g (debugging) you could attach 'gdb' Actually, I dunno that I did; I'd be surprised. ... Nope, I did; my mutt -v reports +DEBUG. One step down... % to the running process, and this might give you a better view into % the program than strace would. But I've never actually used 'gdb' % this way, so I don't know how smart it is when confronted with a % running executable and no source code to go along with it. I could dig the source code back out, too; it's in the cocktail archive. The problem I see, though, ... % % You'd probably need to be pretty familiar with the source code, % variables and structure definitions, etc. for 'gdb' to really help % you figure out what's going on. ... is this one. I can hardly spell gdb, much less use it. % % Not much help, I know, but you did say ``Any ideas are welcome'' ! Indeed I did :-) Thanks a bunch! % % Chris % -- % Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 % Computer Systems Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % IARC -- Frontier Program GPG and PGP keys at my web page: % University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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