[Mono-list] strategies for tracking down a run away thread

[Sean Dague]

We've had a subtle bug creep into the OpenSim project where after some
time one thread starts taking 100% of the CPU.  (using ps -eLf confirms
that it's just one thread).  This is one thread out of ~ 100.

While I can use kill -QUIT on the mono process to get thread stack
traces, I still haven't figured out a direct corolation between Linux
LWPs and Mono thread ids.  And nothing in the stack traces has jumped
out as suspicious.

This is all on mono 1.9 (built from source) on Ubuntu 8.04 and 7.10.

Any strategies for doing corrolation between system light weight
processes and mono threads would be highly appreciated, or any other way
to help get to the bottom of our bug.

Thanks in advance,

     -Sean

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Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
sean at dague dot net                            Linux Users Group
http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org

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