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  • PatLau
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Topic: TAPC makes Mqueue size increase

Recently, I find the Q-Host goes to panic sometimes. I trace the process status by issuing "ps -a" command, finding Mqueue occupies many memory resources.

In the folder "/dev/mqueue", there are thousands of PCM.tapc_req_q.xxxx . It seems that all of them are generated by tapc.

some sample logs captured from Q-host syslog:
Tue Apr 16 16:44:56 2013 0002         tapc           1 22485 1:PCM.tapc_req_q.22485 open on 4
Tue Apr 16 16:44:57 2013 0002         tapc           1 22489 1:PCM.tapc_req_q.22489 open on 4
Tue Apr 16 16:45:15 2013 0002         tapc           1 22622 1:PCM.tapc_req_q.22622 open on 4
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Thu Apr 18 11:58:59 2013 0002         tapc           1 12430 1:PCM.tapc_req_q.12430 open on 4

I compare those logs with other Q-Host systems (We have three Q-Host systems here), those events generate normally. The main difference is that ControlMatrix version (4_01b vs 5_00) and tapc_req_q.xxxx files kept in /dev/mqueue. The same folder in the rest of Q-Host systems does not contain suck kind of files.

those kinds of logs appear 73xx within 2 two days. I doubt it should be the root cause to increase the size of QNX Mqueue.

Does anyone know how to fix it?

Last edited by PatLau (2013-04-20 06:33:38)

2 Reply by PatLau

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Re: TAPC makes Mqueue size increase

A full TAPC connection with "full stop" to terminate the connection can help to reduce the memory being exhausted.

It still creates many flag files (with zero byte) onto /dev/mqueue in ControlMatrix version 4.01b.
Those files can be deleted by crob job daily.

There is no such issue on ControlMatrix version 5.00.