Python Thread Validator - Feature List

Python Thread Validator has many useful features not found in other synchronization analysis tools.

Deadlock Detection

• Detect deadlocks
• Detect potential deadlocks
• Detect bad lock strategy

Data Views

• Locks view. Shows active monitors and waiting monitors for all monitors and threads. Colour coding and text messages indicates various error conditions
• Per Threads Locks view. Shows active mutexes and waiting mutexes on a per-thread basis. Colour coding and text messages indicates various error conditions
• Current Locks view. Shows currently active mutexes and waiting mutexes. Colour coding and text messages indicates various error conditions
• Analysis view. View information on all synchronizations and their related objects
• Threads view. Graphically view the state of the threads in your application
• Objects view. What types of objects are in use and how many
• Diagnostic messages. For detecting unforseen errors in the instrumentation. If things are not behaving as you expect, the answer may be here

Data searches

• Lock Order Display. Displays locks in the order acquired
• Synchronization object search
• Synchronization query by object type
• Synchronization query by address
• Function query
• Single thread mutex detector

Data Management and Filtering

• Filter synchronization data by thread id

Miscellaneous

• Very configurable, almost all options are configurable by the user. Includes an option to reset to the default settings

Startup

• Start by launching a process and instructing the Python Virtual Machine to load the profiler DLL

Instrumentation

• Runs at nearly full speed of non-instrumented application, not 2 or 10 times slower

No need to modify

• No need to modify your application to use Python Thread Validator

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows 7 64 (32 bit applications only)
• Microsoft Windows Vista 64 (32 bit applications only)
• Microsoft Windows XP 64 (32 bit applications only)

• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows NT 4