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Bryan Pendleton reassigned DERBY-666:
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Assign To: Bryan Pendleton
> Enhance derby.locks.deadlockTrace to print stack traces for all threads
> involved in a deadlock
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>
> Key: DERBY-666
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-666
> Project: Derby
> Type: Improvement
> Components: Store
> Versions: 10.1.1.0
> Reporter: Bryan Pendleton
> Assignee: Bryan Pendleton
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: repro.java
>
> I was reading http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2134/ (good article,
> btw!), and it says:
> > The next two properties are needed to diagnose concurrency (locking and
> > deadlock) problems.
> >
> > *derby.locks.monitor=true logs all deadlocks that occur in the system.
> > *derby.locks.deadlockTrace=true log a stack trace of all threads
> > involved in lock-related rollbacks.
> It seems, that, in my environment, the deadlockTrace property does not log a
> stack trace of *all* threads involved in the deadlock.
> Instead, it only logs a stack trace of the *victim* thread involved in the
> deadlock.
> I think it would be very useful if the derby.locks.deadlockTrace setting
> could in fact log a stack trace of all involved threads.
> In a posting to derby-dev, Mike Matrigali noted that an earlier
> implementation of a similar feature had to be removed because it was too
> expensive in both time and space, but he suggested that there might be
> several possible ways to implement this in an acceptably efficient manner:
> > A long time ago there use to be room in each lock to point at a
> > stack trace for each lock, but that was removed to optimize the size
> > of the lock data structure which can have many objects outstanding.
> > And creating and storing the stack for every lock was incredibly slow
> > and just was not very useful for any very active application. I think
> > I was the only one who ever used it.
> >
> > The plan was sometime to add a per user data structure which could be
> > filled in when it was about to wait on a lock, which would give most of
> > what is interesting in a deadlock.
> >
> > The current deadlockTrace is meant to dump the lock table out to derby.log
> > when a deadlock is encountered.
> >
> > I agree getting a dump of all stack traces would be very useful, and
> > with the later jvm debug interfaces may now be possible - in earlier
> > JVM's there weren't any java interfaces to do so. Does anyone have
> > the code to donate to dump all thread stacks to a buffer?
> Mike also suggested a manual technique as a workaround; it would be useful to
> put this into the documentation somewhere, perhaps on the page which
> documents derby.locks.deadlockTrace? Here's Mike's suggestion:
> > What I do if I can reproduce easily is set try to catch the wait by
> > hand and then depending on the environment either send the magic
> > signal or hit ctrl-break in the server window which will send the JVM
> > specific thread dumps to derby.log.
> The magic signal, btw, is 'kill -QUIT', at least with Sun JVMs in my
> experience.
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