I cover various examples in a kernel crash dump and debugging
course that I teach at Sun.
(bad traps, memory corruption, memory leaks, stack overflows, logic
errors, and several different hangs.)
Maybe Sun can start offering the course to outside customers?

max

> --- prasad <prasadjlv at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a "Learn mdb by solving real world
>> problems" type of a doc? DTrace has some great
>> examples for learning and I was wondering if mdb has
>> something similar.
>
> I think there are no such examples. I have always asked about these kind
> of things:
>
>  - how to debug a core dump from firefox/mozilla
>  - investigate a "frozen" application
>  - libumem/mdb example about how to discover a memory leak or a corrupted
> heap for: evolution, firefox, staroffice
>  - attach to a live jvm process and start investigating
>  - debug a core dump from JVM
>
> The list can grow bigger and bigger I think there are so many other
> examples. However it would be very cool to have a runbook with real
> examples about mdb and its friends: libumem, truss etc.
>
> stefan
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