Not exactly a call stack, but KDE's System Activity monitor (ctrl+esc) can provide detailed memory information about a running process. You should see if it gets you any closer to your goal.
Richard On Thursday August 19 2010 12:08:30 Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In Mac OS X, I can use the "Activity Monitor" app to sample a process. > It shows the call tree at the moment, which is very handy to debug a > runaway process. I can find no such feature in Linux, so a co-worker > whipped up a script to use gdb to attach to a process repeatedly, dump > stack traces, and build a call tree. This works okay, but is very slow. > Mac OS X can sample a process in a few seconds. Mine can take a few > minutes (to sample it 10 times, for example). > > Google turned up this, but I can't seem to download the code: > > http://libetpan.sourceforge.net/sample/index.html > > Does anyone have any other tools for sampling a process's call stack? > > --Dave <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
