Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 09 Aug 2001 08:37:23 -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > It is frustrating to try to guess what worker threads are doing at a
> > given instance. You can get a bit of info out of the ps output (at
> > least on some platforms) but I'm generally left making a lot of
> > assumptions (and am often wrong :) ), so I wrote some code to tell me
> > exactly what the worker threads are doing.
> >
>
> my 2c
>
> would it be worthwile adding these extra states to the scoreboard?
> and then you could use something like mod-status to see what is going on
> (maybe have a newcommand to enable them like ExtendedStatus does)
Well, I'd be happy for there to be extra states iff MPM_DEBUG is
defined. I think it is fair to put code like that in the core
distribution now.
scoreboard.h
define a worker-state enum iff MPM_DEBUG
worker_score as worker-state field iff MPM_DEBUG
define a set-worker-state macro to something interesting iff
MPM_DEBUG else define it to a noop
threaded.c, prefork.c, worker.c
put invocations of the set-worker-state macro at critical points
mod_status.c
put the state in extended status output iff MPM_DEBUG
> I'd like to see this patch as a seperate module. so if I include it then
> a new process will be spawned an I can get status like info out of it.
I would too!!, but it would be nice to see people try to use the patch
pretty much as-is and give feedback before investing much time in it.
Long-term the core distribution needs to be modified as described
above. Without that, it is a waste of time spending the time to
implement a module.
I just learned the SIGSTOP trick and wrote the debug process code
yesterday; it is unclear now if/how my own uses will evolve the
code.
> BTW there is a hook (get_mgmt_items) which each of the MPM's could
> implement to dump MPM specific info to mod-status
didn't know that... cool... I don't see any example uses of it. I
guess mod_status would need to be modified too.
Thanks for the feedback!
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