Lightweight Corefile Browser

Abstract

The Lightweight Corefile Browser (LCB) provides a mechanism for capturing and representing the dynamic state of a parallel application that potentially involves hundreds of processes. LCB's goal is to provide a high-level view of the dynamic calling structure of the program, at the moment it terminated. The command-line browser reads the corefile, strips out all data concerning the culprit process and the reason it failed, and presents the results in a simple traceback format. LCB supports a graphical interface, as well as a textual interface for situations where graphics are unavailable or where processing time must be kept minimal.

DateOfInformation

Tue Jun 9 15:08:40 1998

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Execution and Performance Analyzers (including debuggers)

Name

Lightweight Corefile Browser

TargetEnvironment

The xlcb modules are implemented in C++ and Tcl/Tk. They have been tested under Solaris 2.5, SunOS 4.1.3, HP-UX 9.05, and AIX 3.2. It was compiled using gcc 2.5.8 on all except AIX, which used gcc 2.3.3.

Webpage

http://www.cs.orst.edu/~pancake/ptools/lcb/

ContactIs

Ptools Support for both MQM and LCB

Review Information

PTLIB Review of Lightweight Corefile Browser