Re: how to debug when server hangs?

Umm... have you been looking at Apache's error log?

(sorry if this is a dumb question)

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Kevin R. Bullock

On 22 Jan 2004, at 18.34, Alan Bram wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Occasionally, as I'm developing new Ruby code in my .rhtml page, the
> server hangs indefinitely when I try to request a page.  I'm sure it's
> because of my own bug, but how can I begin to debug this?
>
> The only way I know of is to restart the whole Apache server, comment
> out half my new code at a time, and in a kind of binary search,
> eventually figure out what's causing the problem.  And that, of
> course, is only in the case where it's repeatable; sometimes I get a
> Heisen-bug that just shows up once in a while.
>
> Is there any other way?
>
> Cheers,
>  - arb
>