Arthur uses fork() to reduce the pausing lag, and lz4 to reduce the corefile size.
Capture a corefile by arthur,
arthur -p <pid>
coredump will be saved to acore.pid.
Acore is the new corefile format used in Arthur,
Convert Acore to GNU corefile,
arthur -c <acore.pid>
GNU corefile will be saved to core.pid.
based on 1.7GB node process,
| - | arthur | gcore |
|---|---|---|
| process paused time | 30ms | 1.6s |
| realtime cost | 0.641s | 1.639s |
| corefile size | 16MB | 1.7GB |
arthur log,
arthur[50752] I: Process 50519 paused 29.138 ms.
arthur[50752] I: Compressed 1719906691 bytes into 15628790 bytes ==> 0.91%
real 0m0.641s
user 0m0.277s
sys 0m0.316s
gcore log,
Saved corefile core.50519
real 0m1.639s
user 0m0.267s
sys 0m1.371s
file size compare,
$ls -al core.50519 acore.50519
-rw-r--r-- 1 zlei users 15712205 Mar 18 20:08 acore.50519
-rw-r--r-- 1 zlei users 1699545344 Mar 18 20:08 core.50519
Fork coredump mode, (default)
arthur -p <pid> -0
Gcore mode,
arthur -p <pid> -1
Kernel coredump mode,
arthur -p <pid> -2
Monitor mode,
arthur -p <pid> -3
only supports x86_64 Linux.