hs_err_pid file summary proposal

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

time: Mon Jul 13 22:56:17 2015

is useful for correlating against system logs on the
test machine... Things like transient "NFS server not
responding" or "out of the diskspace" or...

Dan


On 7/13/15 3:59 PM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> Coleen,
>
> I'm curious how important is it to have 3 lines of time info:
>   time: Mon Jul 13 22:56:17 2015
>   timezone: DFT
>   elapsed time: 13 seconds (0d 0h 0m 13s)
>
> IMO elapsed time is the one deserving mentioning in the summary.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov
>
> On 7/11/15 1:31 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> I've been working on improvements to the hs_err_pid file.  One
>> suggestion was to add a summary because some information is hard to find
>> in the file, and is very helpful during triaging.   Realizing that
>> everyone has their own opinion of the most important information in the
>> hs_err_pid file, the summary information is minimal and additive, and
>> represents the information that we generally add to the bug report to
>> supplement the hs_err_pid file. Also the stack traces have been moved up
>> because that's what my opinion of the most important thing is.
>>
>> This summary proposal can be found in my last 2 comments in bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026324
>>
>> There are some samples in the bug report als.
>>
>> Please reply with comments.  I have implemented this, but this is not an
>> RFR yet.
>>
>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8026324.01/
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Coleen