Runaway process debugging

From: David R Courtade <drc_at_amherst.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:56:47 -0400 (EDT)

Managers:

I have a situation here and I hope you fols can help. We have a system at
a remote site. When we run our application on this system, it gets into a
loop and takes over 99% of the CPU cycles as indicated by top. The
application is written in Ada under OSF/1 v 3.0 ( OK, Digital UNIX). The
remote system has a fairly minimal OS installation. The only debugger
available is gdb.

Now for the question. Anyone have any idea how we can break into (or
monitor) the process in order to find where the application is looping.
We have been unable to duplicate the problem locally, where we have full
OS and dbx available. The application is too big for DECladebug or DECfuse.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,
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David R. Courtade
System Administrator
Amherst Systems Inc.
30 Wilson Rd.
Buffalo, N.Y. 14221
Phone: (716)631-0610
FAX: (716)631-0629
Email: drc_at_amherst.com
Received on Thu Oct 19 1995 - 15:35:47 NZDT

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