Solved it. Thank you for your help Ido
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 16:25, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011, ik wrote about "Re: Detecting runaway process": > > Can't use gdb, it's a Ruby daemon (I didn't wrote it). > > And strace gives different outputs on each crash :( > > > > I can't figure out what is wrong. > > The first step is to figure out if it exits because of a signal (e.g. > SIGSEGV) or because it decides to exit on its own. Try to run it in a > shell prompt, not in the background, and see if you see any message when > it ends, and see what the exit status ($?) is at the end of the run. > > While it is running, see if its memory use is growing out of control > (use ps or top to find this out). Perhaps it uses too much memory and > gets killed by the oom-killer. > > See if you see any relevant messages in /var/log/messages. > > Try with strace, what is the last few lines? Is there an exit() at the > end? > If it appears it just exists on its own accord, maybe this is not a bug, > but a feature? :-) Look at the code and try to find any place it might > exit without any message. In certain languages (I don't know about Ruby) > it is possible for uncought exceptions to kill the program without a > message - can it be the cause here too? > > Anyway, good luck. In general, it's NOT FUN to debug a program that > someone else wrote... There is no magic bullet, just sweat. > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Nov 17 > 2011, > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Isn't Disney World a people trap > operated > http://nadav.harel.org.il |by a mouse? >
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