Contents tagged with SOS
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Who uses SOSEX and what for?
Another thing I am curious to know is if anyone is using SOSEX and what advantages it gives you for debugging. I have talked to the author of it and I think it has a lot of useful commands, just wanted to get everyone’s take on it.
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Debugger Extension update
The debugger extension that we were working on getting out with the debugger package has hit some roadblocks and it looks like it isn't going to be shipping with the debugger anytime soon.
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SOS Tip: Using help
This is just a quick little note to remind everyone that the !help command in sos can be very helpful. Not only does it list all of the possible commands, but if you run it and pass it the name of a command, it will print out a bunch of really useful information for that command.
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SOS Best Practice: Match the SOS version with the process being analyzed
I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that may change. If you copy SOS.dll to another location and then load it out of that directory to troubleshoot dumps, you may start seeing problems. Namely, things like !clrstack not returning any valid names for functions and just printing out the numbers. For example:
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SOS Feature Requests for the Future
I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without any bounds on what it can do, what would you like to see from a troubleshooting tool for .NET?
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Debugging ASP.NET on a Production Server 101
So I thought I would put all the information together in one place that I have been creating over the past few months. I’ll try to go through all the steps and the different things that you will need to use in order to track down a problem.
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SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – HeapStat
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SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – DumpXmlDocument
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SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – ported from 1.x
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SOS: Upcoming release has a few new commands – DumpThreadConfig