TECHPULP | Stack of a Running Process in Unix/Linux

Stack of a Running Process in Unix/Linux

July 26, 2008

By: Neo

The command pstack can be used to view the stack trace of a running process.

Let us select a running process.

[neo@techpulp ~]# ps -e | grep konqueror
22937 pts/5 00:00:17 konqueror

Run pstack command with PID of the process.

[neo@techpulp ~]# pstack 22937
22937: konqueror
(No symbols found)
0x001fb402: ???? (89c6ed8, 2, bfa39b08, 3812df0, 89c6ed8, 3c21362)
0x0325074b: ???? (89c6ed8, 8a00908)
0x03250656: ???? (89c6ed8, 3c372ec)
0x03237a59: ???? (bfa39c20, bfa39d48, bfa39de8, bfa39d1c, 0, bfa39fb4) + 4c0
0x03bb1d0d: ???? (1, bfa3a094, bfa3a09c, 0, bfa3a094, 1) + 40
0x00248de6: ???? (80485ec, 1, bfa3a094, 8048600, 8048650, 21ff2d) + 405c5f78
[neo@techpulp ~]#

There is an alternate way to use gdb and attach to the running process.

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