GDB - The GNU Project Debugger
The GNU Project Debugger (GDB) is a powerful tool that allows you to analyze the execution flow of a process. GDB can help to find bugs, uncover crash errors or track the source code during execution of a development cluster. It can also be used to debug Teuthology test runs.
GET STARTED WITH GDB
Basic usage with examples can be found here.
GDB can be attached to a running process. For instance, after deploying a
development cluster, the process number (PID) of a ceph-osd
daemon can be found in:
$ cd build
$ cat out/osd.0.pid
Attaching gdb to the process:
$ gdb ./bin/ceph-osd -p <pid>
Note
It is recommended to compile without any optimizations (-O0
gcc flag)
in order to avoid elimination of intermediate values.
Stopping for breakpoints while debugging may cause timeouts, so the following configuration options are suggested:
[osd]
osd_op_thread_timeout = 1500
osd_op_thread_suicide_timeout = 1500
Debugging Teuthology Tests
src/script/ceph-debug-docker.sh
can be used to analyze Teuthology failures:
$ ./ceph-debug-docker.sh <branch-name>
Refer to the script header for more information.