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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Thu 24 Feb 2011 06:05 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 24 Feb 2011 06:08 PM (UTC) by Zeno

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I'm trying to remember how to get cores to dump.

I have C code which gets compiled and run like a MUD, but it's threaded (which makes gdb difficult).

I'm not getting any cores being dumped.

ulimit:
core file size        (blocks, -c) 16384
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 7168
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


Makefile uses -D_REENTRANT -g -o execname -pthread -lm on obj files and -D_REENTRANT -c -g on source files

Or maybe my program isn't seg faulting.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Thu 24 Feb 2011 08:47 PM (UTC)
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You're not sure if it's segfaulting? Is there no message?

How do threads stop gdb anyway? A quick Google seems to indicate it may be able to handle that.

Maybe your program is looping rather than seg faulting. Anyway, can you do a "ps" and see if it is running or not?

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Thu 24 Feb 2011 08:53 PM (UTC)
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I was getting reports that a players instance of the game crashed, so I was assuming it was segfaults.

The issue with threads is that I don't know which thread to attach to in gdb. Nor do I know what's causing the crash.

So I'm hoping to have core dumps.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Fri 25 Feb 2011 02:15 PM (UTC)
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It's pretty easy to test if your environment is set up for core dumps: just write a program that should dump a core, like assert(0) or a null pointer deref or something.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Sat 26 Feb 2011 03:16 AM (UTC)
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Environment is setup for cores dumping it seems.

Guess I need to figure out what this 11+ year old code is doing.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,120 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #5 on Sat 26 Feb 2011 06:13 AM (UTC)
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People use the word "crash" in strange ways. I would get more details. For example, it might be looping.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #6 on Sun 27 Feb 2011 08:27 PM (UTC)
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Well I have this cron that runs:
#!/bin/bash

ps x > /tmp/ps.txt
grep "phantasia/bin/phantasia" /tmp/ps.txt > /dev/null
rc=$?
now=`date`

if [ $rc != "0" ]
then
        nohup "phantasia/bin/phantasia" &
        echo "$now - started phantasia server" >> ~/game.log
else
        count=`grep "phantasia/bin/phantasia" /tmp/ps.txt | wc -l`
        let count="$count - 2"
        echo "$now - $count game(s) running" >> ~/game.log
#       vmstat 10 3 >> game.log
#       echo >> game.log
fi

rm /tmp/ps.txt
exit 0



Quote:
Sun Feb 27 07:45:01 EST 2011 - 1 game(s) running
Sun Feb 27 08:00:01 EST 2011 - started phantasia server
Sun Feb 27 08:15:01 EST 2011 - started phantasia server
Sun Feb 27 08:30:01 EST 2011 - 1 game(s) running


So it is dying, I just have to figure out in what way.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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