Infrastructure Software

I am not very savvy with Solaris administration and we are having issues with configuring our system to run Ruby on Rails applications. We opted to use the Coolstack framework for our environment, thankfully without many hiccups. That said, our applications load but core dump during the second page load.

At this point, I'm not sure if it's our recent switch to Coolstack that is causing the problem. We've also worked to get a Mongrel cluster up and running, so that could also be the culprit.

What I'm looking for really is advice on how to pin down what the error is. I've learned about pstack to deal with the core dump file, but I'd have a better time understanding Chinese than that output. I also read about gdb and dbx, neither of which appear to be installed on our system. A strings on the file, another recommendation I found, spits out a bunch of gibberish.

How can I move forward in discovering the problem?