Comment 4 for bug 531071

Thanks to spm, we have seven memory dumps so far.

I have tried to analyze all of them with meliae. meliae failed to process all of them. The following are summaries of their failures.

launchpad-memory.20566.dump: During loader.load, got "ValueError: Expecting object: line 1 column 17 (char 17)"

launchpad-memory.20610.dump: During loader.load, got "ValueError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 36 (char 36)"

launchpad-memory.20654.dump: During om.compute_parents(), process died with no explanation ("Killed") and no core dump.

lpnet11.21094.dump: During om.collapse_instance_dicts(), process died with no explanation ("Killed") and no core dump.

lpnet12.21146.dump: ValueError: Expecting object: line 1 column 79 (char 79)

lpnet13.21203.dump: ValueError: Expecting , delimiter: line 1 column 186 (char 186)

lpnet14.21255.dump: ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 64 (char 64)

I suppose next steps are three. (1) Contact John Meinel and see if he has advice (or wants to investigate himself). (2) Pursue the ValueErrors by hacking meliae to give me a better idea of what line failed (the "Traceback" line overwrites the information at the moment) and see if I can hack the dump to be loadable while still keeping value. (3) Investigate with Salgado if any of these sound familiar to him, and if he has a workaround.