OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual

Contents (summary)

1 SDA Description
2 System Management and SDA
- 2.1 Writing System Dumps
  - 2.1.1 Dump File Style
  - 2.1.2 Controlling the Size of Page Files and Dump Files
  - 2.1.3 Writing to the System Dump File
  - 2.1.4 Writing to the Dump File off the System Disk
  - 2.1.5 Writing to the System Page File
- 2.2 Saving System Dumps
- 2.3 Invoking SDA when Rebooting the System
3 Analyzing a System Dump
- 3.1 Requirements
- 3.2 Invoking SDA
- 3.3 Mapping the Contents of the Dump File
- 3.4 Building the SDA Symbol Table
- 3.5 Executing the SDA Initialization File (SDA$INIT)
4 Analyzing a Running System
5 SDA Context
6 SDA Command Format
- 6.1 General Command Format
- 6.2 Expressions
  - 6.2.1 Radix Operators
  - 6.2.2 Arithmetic and Logical Operators
  - 6.2.3 Precedence Operators
  - 6.2.4 Symbols
7 Investigating System Failures
- 7.1 General Procedure for Analyzing System Failures
- 7.2 Fatal Bugcheck Conditions
  - 7.2.1 Fatal Exceptions
  - 7.2.2 Illegal Page Faults
8 Inducing a System Failure
- 8.1 Meeting Crash Dump Requirements
- 8.2 Procedure for Causing a System Failure
9 SDA Usage Summary
- 9.1 SDA Qualifiers
Command 1 /CRASH_DUMP
Command 2 /OVERRIDE
Command 3 /RELEASE
Command 4 /SYMBOL
Command 5 /SYSTEM
- 9.2 SDA Commands
Command 6 @ (Execute Command)
Command 7 ATTACH
Command 8 COPY
Command 9 DEFINE
Command 10 DEFINE/KEY
Command 11 EVALUATE
Command 12 EXAMINE
Command 13 EXIT
Command 14 FORMAT
Command 15 HELP
Command 16 MAP
Command 17 MODIFY DUMP
Command 18 READ
Command 19 REPEAT
Command 20 SEARCH
Command 21 SET CPU
Command 22 SET ERASE_SCREEN
Command 23 SET FETCH
Command 24 SET LOG
Command 25 SET OUTPUT
Command 26 SET PROCESS
Command 27 SET RMS
Command 28 SET SIGN_EXTEND
Command 29 SHOW ADDRESS
Command 30 SHOW BUGCHECK
Command 31 SHOW CALL_FRAME
Command 32 SHOW CLUSTER
Command 33 SHOW CONNECTIONS
Command 34 SHOW CPU
Command 35 SHOW CRASH
Command 36 SHOW DEVICE
Command 37 SHOW DUMP
Command 38 SHOW EXECUTIVE
Command 39 SHOW GLOBAL_SECTION_TABLE
Command 40 SHOW GSD
Command 41 SHOW HEADER
Command 42 SHOW LAN
Command 43 SHOW LOCK
Command 44 SHOW MACHINE_CHECK
Command 45 SHOW PAGE_TABLE
Command 46 SHOW PFN_DATA
Command 47 SHOW POOL
Command 48 SHOW PORTS
Command 49 SHOW PROCESS
Command 50 SHOW RESOURCE
Command 51 SHOW RMD
Command 52 SHOW RMS
Command 53 SHOW RSPID
Command 54 SHOW SPINLOCKS
Command 55 SHOW STACK
Command 56 SHOW SUMMARY
Command 57 SHOW SYMBOL
Command 58 SHOW WORKING_SET_LIST
Command 59 SPAWN
Command 60 VALIDATE PFN_LIST
Command 61 VALIDATE QUEUE
- 9.3 SDA Extension Commands
Command 62 CLUE CLEANUP
Command 63 CLUE CONFIG
Command 64 CLUE CRASH
Command 65 CLUE ERRLOG
Command 66 CLUE HISTORY
Command 67 CLUE MCHK
Command 68 CLUE MEMORY
Command 69 CLUE PROCESS
Command 70 CLUE STACK
Command 71 CLUE VCC
Command 72 CLUE XQP

Index
Figures
- SDA-1 Mechanism Array
- SDA-2 Signal Array
- SDA-3 64-Bit Signal Array
- SDA-4 Exception Stack Frame
- SDA-5 Stack Following an Illegal Page-Fault Error
Tables
- SDA-1 The DUMPSTYLE Mask
- SDA-2 Comparison of Full and Selective Dump Files
- SDA-3 SDA Operators
- SDA-4 Modules Containing Global Symbols Used by SDA
- SDA-5 SDA Symbols Defined on Initialization
- SDA-6 SDA Symbols Defined by SET CPU Command
- SDA-7 SDA Symbols Defined by SET PROCESS Command
- SDA-8 Exception Stack Frame Values
- SDA-9 Modules Defining Global Locations Within Executive Image
- SDA-10 SET RMS Command Keywords for Displaying Process RMS Information
- SDA-11 GSD Fields
- SDA-12 Contents of the SHOW LOCK and SHOW PROCESS/LOCKS Displays
- SDA-13 Virtual Page Information in the SHOW PAGE_TABLE Display
- SDA-14 Type of Virtual Pages
- SDA-15 Bits In the PTE
- SDA-16 Physical Page Information in the SHOW PAGE_TABLE Display
- SDA-17 Types of Physical Pages
- SDA-18 Location of the Page
- SDA-19 Command Options with the /COLOR Qualifier
- SDA-20 Page Frame Number Information---Line One Fields
- SDA-21 Page Frame Number Information---Line Two Fields
- SDA-22 Flags Set in Page State
- SDA-23 /TYPE and /SUBTYPE Qualifier Examples
- SDA-24 Options for the /WORKING_SET_LIST Qualifier
- SDA-25 Working Set List Entry Information in the SHOW PROCESS Display
- SDA-26 Process Section Table Entry Information in the SHOW PROCESS Display
- SDA-27 Process I/O Channel Information in the SHOW PROCESS Display
- SDA-28 Resource Information in the SHOW RESOURCE Display
- SDA-29 Lock on Resources
- SDA-30 RMD Fields
- SDA-31 Static Spin Locks
- SDA-32 Process Information in the SHOW SUMMARY Display
- SDA-33 Current State Information
- SDA-34 Options for the SHOW WORKING_SET_LIST Command

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