The MDN article has got an "unfinished draft” flag at the top of it, and the article summary is sadly lacking - it doesn’t really tell you what the tools are.
Can someone give me a two sentence summary of what gdb/ps do, and let me know what’s missing from the article? I’d be happy to help improve it. Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills On 3 Dec 2013, at 16:44, Dave Hylands <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Soledad, > > There is no other documentation for b2g-ps. > > Regular ps produces way more output than most people need. > It also shows all of the child-content processes as merely plugin-container > > Basically, the single most useful thing that b2g-ps does is to show the app > name associated with a given child-content process. > And it only shows the b2g process and its direct descendants. > > b2g-ps passes on any options to ps, the most useful of which is the -t > option. This allows you to see the threads within a process. > > There is another related utility called b2g-info, which dumps out a bunch of > memory information about the b2g processes as well. We include the > b2g-info output when you grab an about:memory dump. > > Dave Hylands > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Andrew Overholt" <[email protected]> >> To: "Soledad Penadés" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected], "Dave Hylands" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 7:15:00 AM >> Subject: Re: Is b2g-ps documented anywhere? >> >> Dave can probably provide some info here. >> >> On Tue 03 Dec 2013 06:34:42 AM EST, Soledad Penadés wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> Heard about b2g-ps for the first time thanks to Kumar's answer to >>> Bosko, and it intrigued me. >>> >>> However I can hardly find any documentation other than its source[1] >>> and a page in MDN[2]. Seems like a wrapper around the native ps to >>> discriminate against non b2g processes, am I right? >>> >>> [1] Here's its source, I believe: >>> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gonk-misc/blob/master/b2g-ps >>> >>> [2] MDN debugging with GDB >>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Debugging/Debugging_B2G_using_gdb >>> >>> >>> thanks! >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
