On Fri, 27 May 2005, lattera wrote:
can't use strace, because I don't know the email that is making it hang. that is why I need to use gdb, so I can look through the stack/heap for the email...
You're saying it's hung, taking 100% of CPU. So just use top to find the PID of the hung process, and attach strace to that PID (strace -p PID). It'll probably at least give the developers a hint of what is going wrong, even if it doesn't provide them with a reproducible test-case.
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