no problem. Thanks. I learned about strace and OOM killer. It turns out it's due to memory leaks. There are many leaks reported by Valgrind. I fixed those that are clearly my fault and now my program running on 770 without crash :-). Thanks for this mail alias ! - Han
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Alexandre Fayolle <alexandre.fayo...@logilab.fr> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2010 07:00:25 Han wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Alexandre Fayolle >> >> <alexandre.fayo...@logilab.fr> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 31 August 2010 09:07:01 Han wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using Maemo 2.2 to develop some programs for Nokia 770. Things >> >> run pretty well except sometime my program would crash for unknown >> >> reason. Normally I start the program from x terminal, and it would >> >> crash with only message "Killed". >> >> >> >> I am wondering if possible to get a stack trace when the program >> >> crashes? so that I can find out where the crash happened in the code. >> > >> > This looks like the executable was killed by the OS. This can happen on >> > Linux because of memory exhaustion (Out Of Memory killer: see e.g. >> > http://linux- mm.org/OOM_Killer for more information on that). I'd >> > advise monitoring memory consumption of your program. >> > >> > You could also use strace to check what's happening in your program and >> > what signal is received which causes termination. >> >> Thanks. Looks like "strace" is not available in 770 Application >> Manager. Do folks compile their own to run on 770? >> Han > > Oh, I was not clear about this : I'm a linux coder, and I have not yet started > coding on maemo but intend to do so soon (hence my subscribing to this list). > Sorry for throwing you on a path harder than it seamed. OTOH, compiling strace > should not be a problem as it is a very classic Unix tool, available in all > the distributions for all the platforms. Maybe you can even grab a precompiled > Debian package and install it. > > -- > Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France) > Formations Python, CubicWeb, Debian : http://www.logilab.fr/formations > Développement logiciel sur mesure : http://www.logilab.fr/services > Informatique scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
