FWIW, I usually do a tail/tee on catalina.out in a term, then do the kill -QUIT <tomcat PID> from another term, then kill the tail/tee combo which leaves me with a reasonably clean thread dump.
For example: Terminal A: prompt$ tail -f /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out | tee /tmp/tomcat-threads.tmpA Terminal B: prompt$ kill -QUIT 12345 On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM, keeplearning<p_sodh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a quick question about getting thread dumps. I have been told that if > I do kill -3 <process id>, it will send the thread dumps to catalina.out. > > Let say if I run test 1 and take 3 dumps. Then if I run test 2 and 3 more. > Do these get appended to first thread dumps I took? > > If yes, Let say if I run 3 different tests and take 3 dumps each test, how > should I seperate those dumps as per specific tests. How do you guys > normally do it? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/thread-dumps-catalina.out-tp25263566p25263566.html > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
