troubleshooting.rst

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Troubleshooting
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Is my Simulation Stuck or just Slow?
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It is possible to check the current timestamp of individual component
simulators. If the timestamp of one of them isn't advancing, then the simulation
is stuck. To make one of our already implemented component simulators output its
current timestamp, send a USR1 signal, for example, by invoking ``kill -s USR1
<insert_pid_of_simulator>``.

When the orchestration framework is running in verbose mode (see
:ref:`sec-command-line`), the current timestamp is visible in the terminal where
you invoked the SimBricks orchestration framework to execute your experiment.
Otherwise, you can interrupt the execution via CTRL+C to produce the output JSON
for the experiment. All component simulator's output is logged there.

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Understanding Simulation Performance
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