[Scons-users] How to debug infinite loop?

[Bill Deegan]

So this is not an infinite loop. But rather some commands you're running
filling up the all the build slots because they are hanging?


On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:27 AM Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I debugged the issue by using `pgrep -P <scons-pid>` to list the child
> pid's of scons which gave me the pid of the process that was hanging. `ps
> -aux | grep <child-pid>` then gave me the command line of the process that
> was hanging. Of course this only works if a separate process is spawned for
> the hanging command.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daan De Meyer
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 17:49, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like one of your processes was hanging?
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:07 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/23/20 4:17 AM, Daan De Meyer wrote:
>>> > I tried that but it doesn't tell me which tasks are still running when
>>> > scons blocks. However, I managed to find the problematic commands by
>>> > simply checking the child processes spawned by scons when it blocked.
>>>
>>> And were you able to resolve the issue?
>>>
>>> If so, a quick analysis might be something we should drop onto the wiki
>>> for future generations....
>>>
>>>
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