On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:23:35 -0500, "Stuart D. Gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a ThreadingTCPServer application (pygossip, part of >http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymilter). It mostly runs well, but >occasionally goes into a loop. How can I get a stack trace of running >threads to figure out where the loop is? Is there some equivalent of >sending SIGQUIT to Java to get a thread dump? If needed, I can import pdb >and set options at startup, but there needs to be some external way of >triggering the dump since I can't reproduce it at will.
Grab the gdbinit out of Python SVN Misc/ directory. Apply this patch: http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/28224.html Attach to the process using gdb. Make sure you have debugging symbols in your build of Python. Run 'thread apply all pystack'. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list