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diff --git a/_posts/2022-09-07-gdb-sleep-all.md b/_posts/2022-09-07-gdb-sleep-all.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4915d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2022-09-07-gdb-sleep-all.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Pause all userspace processes +excerpt: > + How do you pause all userspace processes for a certain amount of time? +snippets_root_directory: snippets/gdb_sleep_all +snippets_language: bash +snippets: + main: + - gdb_sleep_all.sh + gdb: + - sleep.gdb +--- +If you need to debug some kind of monitoring system (or just have some fun), +you might want to pause all userspace processes for a certain number of seconds +(to measure delays, etc.). + +You can easily do this using GDB like this: + +{% include jekyll-theme/snippets/section.html section_id='main' %} + +sleep.gdb is a very simple GDB script; it basically sleeps for a determined +amount of seconds: + +{% include jekyll-theme/snippets/section.html section_id='gdb' %} + +You can simply run + + sudo ./gdb_sleep_all.sh + +and all of your userspace processes should be frozen for 30 seconds. + +On a couple of servers, this worked quite well; not so well on my laptop with +Xfce installed. +Obviously, this would require a bit of work to adapt for containers as well. +Otherwise, pretty neat, huh? |