Getting Locking Information
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Getting Locking Information

Cloudscape provides tools to monitor and display locking information. These tools can help you create applications that minimize deadlock. They can also help you locate the cause of deadlock when it does occur.

To diagnose locking problems, you can do one or both of the following:

  • display current lock manager information by querying built-in VTIs (LockTable and TransactionTable)
  • constantly monitor locking traffic by logging all deadlocks (using the cloudscape.locks.monitor property)

The following topics are covered in this chapter: