[Pulp-list] pulp debugging

[Jay Dobies]

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On 03/07/2011 08:26 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've added a new debugging feature into pulp. It's a server-side
> debugging module along with a server section configuration option:
> debugging_mode: <bool>. If the option is 'true', it sets part of pulp to
> watch for a file called: /var/log/pulp/stacktrace-dump. Every time
> someone touches the file, pulp will write the stacktraces of all active
> treads out to apache's error file. The file does not need to exist when
> pulp starts. However, pulp does need to respond to at least one request
> before it can write the stacktraces out. The stacktraces do not
> interfere with pulp's other activities.
> 
> I still plan to implement an interactive debugger that works on a
> similar principal. But will need more time and design (to be effective,
> it'll have to halt all the treads in the system) and implement.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Happy debugging.

This is pretty cool, thanks for setting this up. If I wanted to do this
more than once, would I have to delete the contents of stacktrace-dump
or can I just touch it again and have it overwrite?

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Jay Dobies
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Freenode: jdob
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