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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:11:40 +0100
From: Peter Edwards <peadar.edwards@gmail.com>
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Cc: Peter Edwards <peadar@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ktrace and KTR_DROP
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On 7/1/05, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 09:21 am, Peter Edwards wrote:
> > Y'all,
> >
> > Ever since the introduction of a separate ktrace worker thread for
> > writing output, there's the distinct possibility that ktrace output
> > will drop requests. For some proceses, it's actually inevitable:
> > as long as the traced processes can sustain a rate of generating
> > ktrace events faster than the ktrace thread can write them, you'll
> > eventually run out of ktrace requests.
>=20
> The patch looks good to me, and I'd even be ok with having neverdrop on b=
y
> default.

FWIW, that would also be my preference, I was just being conservative.