splice syscall runs endlessly, usage problem?

splice syscall runs endlessly, usage problem?

[Helia Correia]

Hi,

I am getting to know how to use Trinity, and my last attempt was to run 
below command (on a Fedora 17 64 bits distribution):
trinity -c splice -C1 -D

My problem is that this command doesn't stop running by itself (started 
yesterday, was still running this morning so I interrupted it), and I 
don't understand why but guess this is not an expected behavior, am I 
right? What should I do to have it run normally (I mean, start and end 
up gracefully)?

Maybe I overlooked something but seems I couldn't find any documentation 
as regards to this aspect, as well as how much time it nearly takes to 
have Trinity run entirely, so any pointers would be highly appreciated.

Thank you and best regards,
Helia

Re: splice syscall runs endlessly, usage problem?

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Helia Correia wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am getting to know how to use Trinity, and my last attempt was to run 
 > below command (on a Fedora 17 64 bits distribution):
 > trinity -c splice -C1 -D
 > 
 > My problem is that this command doesn't stop running by itself (started 
 > yesterday, was still running this morning so I interrupted it), and I 
 > don't understand why but guess this is not an expected behavior, am I 
 > right? What should I do to have it run normally (I mean, start and end 
 > up gracefully)?
 > 
 > Maybe I overlooked something but seems I couldn't find any documentation 
 > as regards to this aspect, as well as how much time it nearly takes to 
 > have Trinity run entirely, so any pointers would be highly appreciated.

It will run indefinitly unless you pass -N<number> (or unless it hits a kernel
bug that taints the kernel).

	Dave

Re: splice syscall runs endlessly, usage problem?

[Helia Correia]

On 09/03/2013 06:38 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Helia Correia wrote:
>   > Hi,
>   >
>   > I am getting to know how to use Trinity, and my last attempt was to run
>   > below command (on a Fedora 17 64 bits distribution):
>   > trinity -c splice -C1 -D
>   >
>   > My problem is that this command doesn't stop running by itself (started
>   > yesterday, was still running this morning so I interrupted it), and I
>   > don't understand why but guess this is not an expected behavior, am I
>   > right? What should I do to have it run normally (I mean, start and end
>   > up gracefully)?
>   >
>   > Maybe I overlooked something but seems I couldn't find any documentation
>   > as regards to this aspect, as well as how much time it nearly takes to
>   > have Trinity run entirely, so any pointers would be highly appreciated.
>
> It will run indefinitly unless you pass -N<number> (or unless it hits a kernel
> bug that taints the kernel).
>
> 	Dave
>
>
Hi Dave,

Thanks for your input, I will try that (and indeed, -N is mentioned in 
Trinity usage, my bad :)

Best regards,
Helia