Profiling & debugging on FreeBSD: loadable modules, profiler output, threads

From: Michal Pasternak (michal_at_pasternak.w.lub.pl)
Date: 05/30/04

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    Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 19:28:22 +0200
To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Hi,

    I need to debug some software, written in Python (with threads), which uses
    dynamically loadable modules, written in C.

    FreeBSD version is 5.2.1-RC.

    All Python modules are compiled with "-g -pg", so is the python binary.

    By default, "-g -pg -pthread" doesn't seem to link libc to Python binary
    (modules complain about missing 'strftime' on load). Any other combination
    of options, than "-g -pg -lc_r -lc -pthread" causes Python binary to dump
    core with sig 10 at start (with never ending _pthread_self calls in
    backtrace).

    Even if python.gmon is created, it contains only an information about calls
    to '__fpsetreg'.

    My sysctl kern.debug.threads is 1.

    kdump output seems to reveal:

     88107 python2p3 NAMI "python2p3.gmon"
     88107 python2p3 RET open 5

    ... but only at the *end* of the log (shouldn't it be open some time earlier)?

    I'd appreciate any help in this matter. I need this working by yesterday.

    Thanks, 

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