OpenVMS VAX System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual

Contents (summary)

1 SDA Description
2 System Management and SDA
- 2.1 Understanding the System Dump File
  - 2.1.1 Choosing Between SYSDUMP.DMP and PAGEFILE.SYS Files
  - 2.1.2 Choosing a Dump File Style
- 2.2 Saving System Dumps
- 2.3 Invoking SDA in the Site-Specific Startup Command Procedure
3 Analyzing a System Dump
- 3.1 Invoking SDA
- 3.2 Mapping the Contents of the Dump File
- 3.3 Building the SDA Symbol Table
- 3.4 Executing the SDA Initialization File (SDA$INIT)
4 Analyzing a Running System
5 SDA Context
6 CPU Context
7 Process Context
8 SDA Command Format
- 8.1 General Command Format
- 8.2 Expressions
  - 8.2.1 Radix Operators
  - 8.2.2 Arithmetic and Logical Operators
  - 8.2.3 Precedence Operators
  - 8.2.4 Symbols
9 Investigating System Failures
- 9.1 General Procedure for Analyzing System Failures
- 9.2 Fatal Bugcheck Conditions
  - 9.2.1 Fatal Exceptions
  - 9.2.2 Illegal Page Faults
10 A Sample System Failure
- 10.1 Identifying the Bugcheck
- 10.2 Identifying the Exception
- 10.3 Locating the Source of the Exception
  - 10.3.1 Finding the Driver by Using the Program Counter
  - 10.3.2 Calculating the Offset into the Driver's Program Section
- 10.4 Finding the Problem Within the Routine
  - 10.4.1 Examining the Routine
  - 10.4.2 Checking the Values of Key Variables
  - 10.4.3 Identifying and Correcting the Defective Code
11 Inducing a System Failure
- 11.1 Meeting Crash Dump Requirements
- 11.2 Examples of How to Cause System Failures
12 SDA Usage Summary
13 SDA Qualifiers
Command 1 /CRASH_DUMP
Command 2 /RELEASE
Command 3 /SYMBOL
Command 4 /SYSTEM
14 SDA Commands
Command 5 @ (Execute Procedure)
Command 6 ATTACH
Command 7 COPY
Command 8 DEFINE
Command 9 EVALUATE
Command 10 EXAMINE
Command 11 EXIT
Command 12 HELP
Command 13 READ
Command 14 SEARCH
Command 15 SET CPU
Command 16 SET LOG
Command 17 SET OUTPUT
Command 18 SET PROCESS
Command 19 SET RMS
Command 20 SHOW CALL_FRAME
Command 21 SHOW CONNECTIONS
Command 22 SHOW CPU
Command 23 SHOW CRASH
Command 24 SHOW DEVICE
Command 25 SHOW EXECUTIVE
Command 26 SHOW HEADER
Command 27 SHOW LAN
Command 28 SHOW LOCK
Command 29 SHOW LOGS
Command 30 SHOW PAGE_TABLE
Command 31 SHOW PFN_DATA
Command 32 SHOW POOL
Command 33 SHOW PORTS
Command 34 SHOW PROCESS
Command 35 SHOW RESOURCE
Command 36 SHOW RMS
Command 37 SHOW RSPID
Command 38 SHOW SPINLOCKS
Command 39 SHOW STACK
Command 40 SHOW SUMMARY
Command 41 SHOW SYMBOL
Command 42 SHOW TRANSACTIONS
Command 43 SPAWN
Command 44 VALIDATE QUEUE

Index
Figures
- SDA-1 Pointer Argument List on the Stack
- SDA-2 Mechanism Array
- SDA-3 Signal Array
- SDA-4 Stack Following an Illegal Page-Fault Error
- SDA-5 Call Frame
Tables

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