help with serviceability agent?

Swamy Venkataramanappa swamyv at central.sun.com
Thu Aug 14 12:33:41 PDT 2008


Use hsdbproc.sh script.

-Swamy

Keith McGuigan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if someone could help me figure out how to run 
> serviceability agent.  I've never run it before, so expect naive 
> questions/issues.
>
> So I build the a VM from the openjdk hotspot-rt baseline and placed it 
> into a jdk7 JDK.  I build the SA from the same repo by cd'ing into the 
> agent/make directory and running gnumake (this is on solaris-sparc, by 
> the way).  I then fire off a test process (java2d demo), and in the 
> agent/build/classes directory, I run 'java sun.jvm.hotspot.HSDB'.
>
> The window comes up fine, but when I try to attach to a JVM process, I 
> get the following error:
>
> "Error connecting to dbx process"
>
> dbx is in my path (I tried both SS11 and SS12), and I tried passing 
> -Dsun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.VM.disableVersionCheck but no luck.  I don't 
> see any log file hanging around that will help me debug this.
>
> So... any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or what I can do to help 
> myself figure this out?
>
> -- 
> - Keith




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