From fb6a91f23eac41cf2091e50a4000c238b0d4ea39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stein Magnus Jodal Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:32:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Remove duplicate description of pkill -SIGUSR1 --- docs/development.rst | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst index 776b004d..283600b4 100644 --- a/docs/development.rst +++ b/docs/development.rst @@ -294,23 +294,6 @@ Using this setup you can now run Mopidy with ``PROFILE=silent mopidy`` if you for instance want to test Spotify without any actual audio output. -Debugging deadlocks -=================== - -Between the numerous Pykka threads and GStreamer interactions there can -sometimes be a potential for deadlocks. In an effort to make these slightly -simpler to debug Mopidy registers a ``SIGUSR1`` signal handler which logs the -traceback of all alive threads. - -To trigger the signal handler, you can use the ``pkill`` command to -send the ``SIGUSR1`` signal to any Mopidy processes:: - - pkill -SIGUSR1 mopidy - -If you check the log, you should now find one log record with a full traceback -for each of the currently alive threads in Mopidy. - - Writing documentation =====================