[Seaside] Seaside image health check

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Paul DeBruicker wrote:

> I have a Pharo 1.3-13315/Seaside 3.0.6.3 headless image on 64bit linux that 
> sometimes stops responding to HTTP requests and acts like its in an infinite 
> loop. If I connect to that image with the RFB after a couple minutes I can 
> enter my password and it drops out of the infinite loop and resumes answering 
> HTTP requests as if nothing was wrong.  The hang happens irregularly and I 
> haven't yet been able to get access to a debugger when it is hanging. 
> CPUWatcher doesn't catch it either.
>
> I'm thinking to use the Scheduler package + ZnClient to send a request from 
> that image to itself requesting a page, and if it times out, to write the 
> ProcessBrowser + CPU usage data to a log file.
>
> Is there an established/better/other way to attempt to diagnose these 
> intermittent hangs?

If you're using CogVM, then you can force printing the content of all 
smalltalk stacks to stdout by sending a USR1 signal to the process with 
the following command:

kill -USR1 <pid>

The currently active process will be printed first.


Levente

>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
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