PMDF Analyze Menu

The Analyse pull-down menu offers four selections, each of which displays its own menu selection. Where parameters are required they should be highlighted by double-clicking mouse button 1 on text in the scrollable window.

CAUTION:

The output from the Analyze options needs to interpreted with care. Some options are precise since they follow control block chains anchored from the SAS, for example the Physical Device Driver Chain and Kernel Heap. Others depend, for correct results, on correct symbols being loaded. Some options, for example those that display stacks, are more speculative in what they display.

Before these facilities are relied on, the user should thoroughly acquaint themselves with the manual techniques that belie their function. This information is available in the course materials that comprise the first section of this Handbook.

The following selections are available: