Re: getting data from the memory space of a hung app

2014-09-29 Thread David Simpson
Phil, You would probably have to prepare in advance for a situation like this, and use arrayEncode to create a binary form of the array and save it to disk. Maybe you would do this as certain intervals in preparation for a possible crash. Otherwise, there are debugging/hacking tools which can

Re: getting data from the memory space of a hung app

2014-09-29 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks David. Ah yes... I'm finding some of these as I Google memory scraping tools. Phil On 9/29/14 12:32 PM, David Simpson wrote: Phil, You would probably have to prepare in advance for a situation like this, and use arrayEncode to create a binary form of the array and save it to disk.

getting data from the memory space of a hung app

2014-09-29 Thread Phil Davis
Hi folks, Are you aware of any way to save the in-memory data of a standalone app that's currently not responding? This is on a Mac, probably OS 10.8.x or maybe 10.9.x. Right-clicking the app's icon in the Dock gives you the force quit option. The data is in an array. I created a stack my

Re: getting data from the memory space of a hung app

2014-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Phil Davis wrote: Thanks David. Ah yes... I'm finding some of these as I Google memory scraping tools. Unfortunately, even if you could sort through a core dump, if my understanding of arrays is correct it'll be very difficult to piece together the many different memory locations where array

Re: getting data from the memory space of a hung app

2014-09-29 Thread Phil Davis
Good point, Richard. Thanks. Phil On 9/29/14 12:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Phil Davis wrote: Thanks David. Ah yes... I'm finding some of these as I Google memory scraping tools. Unfortunately, even if you could sort through a core dump, if my understanding of arrays is correct it'll be