On 1 Sep 2010, at 21:13, Brock Palen wrote:

> I have a code for a user (namd if anyone cares)  that on a specific case will 
> lock up,  a quick ltrace shows the processes doing Iprobes over and over, so 
> this makes me think that a process someplace is blocking on communication.  
> 
> What is the best way to look at message queues? To see what process is stuck 
> and to drill into.

The only three programs I know which can do this are TotalView, DDT and Padb.  
Totalview and DDT are graphical parallel debuggers and are commercial projects, 
Padb is a command-line tool and is open-source

Ashley (padb developer)

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Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.

Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing
http://padb.pittman.org.uk


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