Re: Weird Crash - "WAITING_TO_RUNNING"

[Nathan <nathan.stocks () gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:49:41PM -0800, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:17:49AM -0700, Nathan wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:59 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > > > I looked over the code and I can't find what might be causing the change
> > > > in run time. I attached four different versions of nse_main.lua that
> > > > make incremental changes. Please try running each of the four and report
> > > > the times you get. Just copy each one over nse_main.lua in turn.
> > > >
> > > > David Fifield
> > >
> > > Sorry for the delay, it's been a very busy work week.  Here are the
> > > measurements you asked for with your custom versions of nse_main.lua.
> > > Please note that the values will fluctuate ~2% from run to run, but
> > > within about that margin of error the runs were very consistent with
> > > themselves.  Also, these were all run with nmap 5.35DC1, with
> > > nse_main.lua replaced by the file indicated.
> > >
> > > nse_main.lua.1: 53732 kB RAM, 5m40s
> > >
> > > nse_main.lua.2: 53588 kB RAM, 5m21s
> > >
> > > nse_main.lua.3: 55512 kB RAM, 5m27s
> > >
> > > nse_main.lua.4: 54352 kB RAM, 5m22s
> > >
> > > Since none of those seem to display any problems, I went and ran a
> > > bunch of other things:
> > >
> > > 1) Here's the nse_main.lua pulled from 5.36TEST2 and copied over into 5.35DC1
> > >
> > > 54448 kB RAM, 5m23s
> > >
> > > 2) Same as #1, but with the CONCURRENCY_LIMIT lowered to 100
> > >
> > > 54312 kB RAM, 5m32.126s
> > >
> > > 3) Here's the vanilla nmap 5.36TEST2 on the same machine (when I run
> > > this one, I compile it but don't install it, then I run it from the
> > > directory it was compiled in).
> > >
> > > 94532 kB RAM, 14m48s
> >
> > When you are running from the same directory, do you use "--datadir ."?
> > If not, it might be referring to the wrong nse_main.lua (the installed
> > one). Try your command with
> >
> > nmap --datadir . <args..>
>
> Nathan, did --datadir fix the problem?

I've been on vacation for the last several weeks.  Starting testing as
you asked now.  I'll post the results later today or tomorrow,
assuming I can hold off my coworkers that long... ;-)

~ Nathan
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