Commands of symmon

Commands of symmon

The exact set of commands supported by symmon changes from release to release and from CPU model to CPU model. Many symmon commands are useful only to Silicon Graphics engineers who are debugging hardware and kernel problems. For a complete list of commands, see the symmon(1M) reference page, or enter symmon and give the help command. You can use control-S and control-Q on the console terminal to pause the scrolling display.

The commands described in this section are generally useful and are available on all CPU models under IRIX 6.2. These commands can be grouped into the following categories:

Conversion between symbols and memory addresses.
Execution control, including commands for stopping, starting, and setting breakpoints.
Display and modification of memory, including the display of machine registers and of system data structures such as the buf_t and proc_t objects.
Management of the virtual memory system and the TLB.