Periodical Thread Dumps

Logging periodical thread dumps is a built in feature of SmartGit to track well reproducible, pervasive performance problems. To investigate a problem using periodical thread dumps, do the following:

• While SmartGit is running, locate the settings directory: invoke Help|About SmartGit and check the Information page for the settings directory (Settings Path).
• Shutdown SmartGit (use Repository|Exit and afterwards make sure that no more SmartGit process is running).
• In the settings directory, open smartgit.properties (create this file if necessary) and add following line to enable the Debug menu:

smartgit.debug=true

• Remove all log.txt* files from the settings directory.
• Startup SmartGit.
• Trigger the slow operation.
• Invoke Debug|Create Periodical Thread Dumps.
• After the offending operation has finished, shutdown SmartGit again.
• Compress all log.txt.* files from the settings directory as a zip or tar/gzip archive and send this archive, as well as a short description of how to reproduce the problem, to [email protected].