DevRoom Proposal: Open Heart Surgery: HotSpot Debugging at the OS Level

[Volker Simonis]

The slides of the talk are available from:

http://progdoc.de/papers/Joker2014/joker2014.html

@Mario: could you please eventually link this to the talk description
at https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/debugging_hotspot/

Thanks,
Volker


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Title: Open Heart Surgery: HotSpot Debugging at the OS Level
>
> Abstract:
>
> Debugging Java applications is comfortable and simple, but if you want
> to look beyond the Java horizon, you need special knowledge and and
> different tools.
>
> This interactive session shows you how to debug a running VM or
> analyze a VM core file with a native debugger like gdb. You will also
> learn how to use some of the more than 1,200 VM options to trace or
> modify the VM behavior. This knowledge can greatly help you identify,
> isolate and reproduce the root cause of hard VM crashes, and it can
> also be pure fun to see which actual machine instruction the CPU is
> executing for your Java code.
>
> Bio:
>
> Volker Simonis works for SAP in the SAP JVM Technology group. He
> is an OpenJDK contributor from the very beginning and helped SAP and
> the SAP JVM team engage in the OpenJDK project. He's the project lead
> of the OpenJDK PowerPC/AIX porting project, a JDK8 committer and JDK9
> reviewer.
>
> Recording me on audio and/or video is acceptable
>
> This session requires a 45min slot.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker