Hi Jatinder, Jatinder wrote:
> Can someone please provide some pointers on a method to track a process. The > situation we have is an application process refuses to die, every time a kill > is issued the process respawns itself. At present the server is rebooted to > remove the process, which is not ideal. I need to identify what the process > is doing what it is referencing etc basically find a root cause to the > problem. Can dtrace help with this analysis, if it can what scripts or probes > do i require. I'd start by running 'ptree' on the process in question and having a look at its ancestors. What signal are you sending with 'kill'? If the process reappears following a SIGKILL then run 'ptree' to identify its parent. Regards, Robert _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
