Ok, you two (Max/Stefan) got this information already but the list didn't - there are some f*cist rules out there preventing the posting of attachments ...
> 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 I've been keeping such material (of-sorts) to myself for far too long a time ... I've been planning to make course material that is somewhere in the middle between x86/x64 assembly language tutorial, low-level debugging, Solaris Internals and crashdump analysis available to the public for a while - StarOffice format, using a Creative Commons License. This is finally through the editing phase. Now I've been fighting with our blogs.sun.com site for a few hours to get some large files uploaded, no go yet (Blog roller is IMHO missing the mark - why on earth do I love Wiki, for its simplicity, and hate roller since that's focusing on eyecandy not usability ...). I'll create a blog entry with links to the editable StarOffice files as soon as I know where in public these actually end up. For the time being, I've put the PDF file only onto my old student account at http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~hofmann/docs/book.pdf where I'll keep it until the editable material on mediacast.sun.com is publically reachable. mdb usage examples are Chapter 7. No SPARC at this time, sorry. This book was supposed to fill a gap, since as Max mentioned there are extensive SPARC crashdump/mdb trainings available, and at least some public information on SPARC dump analysis is published in form of the good old "Panic !" book. Thanks for feedback ! FrankH. > > > --- 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 > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > mdb-discuss mailing list > > mdb-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > mdb-discuss mailing list > mdb-discuss at opensolaris.org
