Posts tagged debugging

Viy: Simple End-to-End Process Monitoring for Linux

Viy is a simple process monitoring tool for Linux that gives you a full historical view of your process’s resource usage — not just the final peak, but a complete timeline across the entire run. Named after Вій, a creature from Ukrainian folklore known for its powerful gaze that sees through everything, this tool helps you see through your program’s resource usage over its lifetime.

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Pdb Driven Development

The most important command of pdb module that you should know is set_trace method, it enters the debugger at the calling stack frame at a given point in a program, and so far it’s the only piece of code that you should not be ashamed to copy-paste:

When you are in debugger there is a set of command that will help you investigate the scope:

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