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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jeremy R. Geddes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Hugh E. Hockett, Raleigh, NC (US);
Aaron J. Quirk, Cary, NC (US);
Kristin R. Whetstone, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detecting stalling of a software process in a computer system includes receiving identification of a task thread group executing in a work process executing on a computer system. The task thread group includes one or more threads and the receiving includes receiving identification of the one or more threads by a control process executing on a computer system. The detecting includes detecting whether there is a thread state change for the task thread group, marking the task as running responsive to detecting a thread state change for the task thread group, marking the task as stalled responsive to detecting an absence of a thread state change for at least a predefined amount of time, and marking the work process as stalled responsive detecting an absence of a predetermined signal from the work process for at least a predefined amount of time.