Re: Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Vadim Belman said: > It seem like I got a NFS-related bug here where a httpd process > hung in a uninterruptable wait (a disk operation, most likely). In order to > locate the problem I need the process' stack trace first. > > gdb doesn't attach to the pr

RE: Live debugging of a process being hung in a syscall.

2000-09-15 Thread Duane H. Hesser
"The Coroner's Toolkit" from Venema and Farmer includes a tool which paws through /proc and writes process memory for all processes running on the system to record files (intended for post-mortem analysis after a breakin). Sounds like this tool would do what you want. The toolkit can be found at