Detecting runaway process

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ido,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:41:48 +0200
ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 13:13, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:03:39 -0800 (PST)
> > Valery Reznic <valery_reznic at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You can try
> > > strace -p <pid_of_daemon>
> > >
> >
> > ik can also use gdb for that.
> >
> 
> Can't use gdb, it's a Ruby daemon (I didn't wrote it).

Well, in that case try looking for a Ruby equivalent to "sh -x" or to Perl's
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-Trace/ , which prints every line before executing it. Keep it in a log and see where exactly it fails. 

> And strace gives different outputs on each crash :(
> 
> I can't figure out what is wrong.
> 

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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