v8/tools/oom_dump/README
antonm@chromium.org 7bf19e80cd Various improvements to oom_dump and instance type lists.
1) addresses various Mark's concern;
2) adds some missing instance types and rearranges existing ones to follow
  InstanceType order;
3) various minor cleanups.

Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/3119023

git-svn-id: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge@5286 ce2b1a6d-e550-0410-aec6-3dcde31c8c00
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oom_dump extracts useful information from Google Chrome OOM minidumps.
To build one needs a google-breakpad checkout
(http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/).
First, one needs to build and install breakpad itself. For instructions
check google-breakpad, but currently it's as easy as:
./configure
make
sudo make install
(the catch: breakpad installs .so into /usr/local/lib, so you might
need some additional tweaking to make it discoverable, for example,
put a soft link into /usr/lib directory).
Next step is to build v8. Note: you should build x64 version of v8,
if you're on 64-bit platform, otherwise you would get a link error when
building oom_dump.
The last step is to build oom_dump itself. The following command should work:
cd <v8 working copy>/tools/oom_dump
scons BREAKPAD_DIR=<path to google-breakpad working copy>
(Additionally you can control v8 working copy dir, but the default should work.)
If everything goes fine, oom_dump <path to minidump> should print
some useful information about the OOM crash.
Note: currently only 32-bit Windows minidumps are supported.