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Eclipse TPTP on IBM AIX platform

It seems that the Eclipse TPTP project has stopped to provide Agent Controller and agent libraries for some Unix platforms like IBM AIX.

I have just tried to use the IBM Rational Agent Controller (available at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2042&uid=swg27013420) with Eclipse TPTP 4.7.1 as client. Surprisingly it seems to be perfectly compatible, i have successfully collected profiling data on an Eclipse Workbench under Windows from a IBM J9 32bits VM SR8 running on a 64bits IBM AIX PowerPC 6.

Some tips :

  • While i tried to profile with an Xmx value equals or greater than 2048m the JVM crashed  with the following error as soon as i attached the Eclipse Workbench to the Agent Controller:
Unhandled exception
Type=Illegal instruction vmState=0x00000000
J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000010 Signal_Number=00000004 Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=0000001e
…..
Target=2_40_20100401_055940 (AIX 5.3)
CPU=ppc (4 logical CPUs) (0x200000000 RAM)
----------- Stack Backtrace -----------
---------------------------------------
JVMDUMP006I Processing dump event "gpf", detail "" - please wait.
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested System dump using 'core.20101013.171437.2584664.0001.dmp' in response to an event
Note: "Enable full CORE dump" in smit is set to FALSE and as a result there will be limited threading information in core file.
JVMDUMP006I Processing dump event "systhrow", detail "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError" - please wait.
JVMDUMP006I Processing dump event "systhrow", detail "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError" - please wait.
JVMDUMP010I System dump written to core.20101013.171437.2584664.0001.dmp
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using 'Snap.20101013.171437.2584664.0004.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to Snap.20101013.171437.2584664.0004.trc
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Java dump using 'javacore.20101013.171437.2584664.0005.txt' in response to an event
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using 'Snap.20101013.171440.2584664.0003.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to Snap.20101013.171440.2584664.0003.trc
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using Snap.20101013.171440.2584664.0002.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to Snap.20101013.171440.2584664.0002.trc
UTE430: can't allocate buffer
UTE437: Unable to load formatStrings for j9mm
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Heap dump using 'heapdump.20101013.171440.2584664.0006.phd' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Java dump written to javacore.20101013.171437.2584664.0005.txt
JVMDUMP013I Processed dump event "gpf", detail "".
  • Do not forget to properly setup the LIBPATH environment variable in order to reference the lib and plugins/org.eclipse.tptp.javaprofiler directories. Agents rely on it to find the *.so files.
  •  Do not forget to start the AgentController on the AIX (with the ACStart.sh script in the bin directory) and, if it is not already done, to configure it with the SetConfig.sh Before trying to profile i suggest you to test the Agent Controller from a remote client with the SampleClient :
SampleClient <AIXHostName> <AgentControllerPort>

(Default AgentControllerPort is 10006)
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