There's a whitepaper about it located here: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/Stackt race/
Jeremy > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Ricker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:58 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Thread dump > > I am intrigued by this feature; it would help with the debugging of a > application. I tried to test it against tomcat but I get nothing on > stderr (i.e., nothing in /var/log/messages, terminal, directory I am in, > catalina.out, or any of the logs for Tomcat). > > Could you expand on what behavior you see when you send the -3 to > Tomcat's PID? > > Thanks, > > Ben Ricker > Wellinx.com > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 12:29, Schnitzer, Jeff wrote: > > FYI, no it doesn't, it just causes the (Sun, at least) JVM to dump a > > list of threads and their stacks to stderr. Note that it's the real > > stderr, not System.err. This is a JVM feature. It can be done anytime > > and is a *really* useful debugging feature. > > > > Jeff > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Manavendra Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:01 AM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: RE: Thread dump > > > > > > Beg your pardon? would that not actually kill the process, rather than > > > displaying the thread dump? > > > > > > And what if one wants to see the thread dump right from the moment > > tomcat > > > starts up? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > manav. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:18 PM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: Re: Thread dump > > > > > > > > > > > > kill -3 <pid> > > > > > > RS > > > > > > > > > > > > "Manavendra > > > Gupta" To: "Tomcat Users > > > List" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > cc: > > > 12/06/02 09:53 AM Subject: Thread dump > > > Please respond to > > > "Tomcat Users > > > List" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have tomcat 4.1 running on Linux. How do i see the thread dump? The > > > startup.sh on linux just starts it in the background, while i could > > use > > > startup.bat on windows and get the thread dump. > > > > > > thanks, > > > manav. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: < > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: < > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wellinx.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
