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Hello all,
I am getting extremely frustrated with DS-5 and Eclipse and it's connection to my target.
It is extremely slow, sometimes taking a few minutes to respond. Eclipse will sit at 100% utilization of a core, and apparently, be doing NOTHING.
Not only that, single stepping, memory viewing and pretty much anything takes a very long time.
Even initial startup takes a very, very long time.
This is, by far, one of the slowest debuggers I have ever used and I'm seriously considering not renewing any support contract with it.
Outline of setup:-
Marvell SoC system,
Connection via Ethernet, using gdbserver to debug an application,
JTAG is not available, due to encryption on JTAG port.
Target system is running linux 3.4.50, it's a dual core system running at 1GHz.
There may be a fundamental set up issue with DS-5 or Eclipse, if there is, I need to resolve this.
I would very much appreciate any assistance in diagnosing this problem. I need to debug my application, and this is not helping.
Hi there,
Sorry to hear of your troubles, this is not typical of the many DS-5 users out there. To reiterate Joe's point above, loading of vmlinux symbols (i.e. the Linux kernel symbols) will have no relevance to an application running on that system. That being said, I would imagine the debugger would just error that these symbols don't match anything loaded.
I wonder if you are seeing a curious incarnation of the issue discussed here?
I (or the ARM support team) would be interested to see your Debug Configuration to see exactly how you are setting up the connection.
Regards
I discovered the gdbserver running on the client was quite old. 7.6.50.20130601. I have updated it to the latest, and it seems to be functioning better.
I've updated the gdbserver to 7.8.
I will try it for a few days before filing the support request, it may have just been down to this.
But, even besides this, I generally find Eclipse to be unacceptably slow. I *should* be able to single-step at auto-repeat rates. But there's no way it comes close to that. It seems to take almost 300ms to update the display.
Brian.