Re: Debugging Thread

From: Chuck Dillon (spam_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:26:00 -0600

LDD wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any tool working under Solaris that could help
> investigating about thread problems ?

dbx

>
> I'm experiencing a deadlock situation that is difficult to reproduce
> on the delopment platform but that happens too much often on the
> production one.
> So a cool thing would be to have something that allows me, perhaps
> after having relinked my program, to monitor thread activity, state
> and last activation time.
> Perhaps I should mention that my application is not responsible for
> the threads management, it's up to a "black box" library.
>
> The important point for me is to detect that a thread is blocked for
> too much time, in which case I could decide from another process to
> kill it and go on.
>
> Any advice is really welcome.
>
> Loic

When a deadlock occurs generate a core file and use dbx to investigate.

-- ced 

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Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.