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Subject: Re: non-responding processes after truss(1)ing
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On 9/27/2011 1:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> kill -9 your truss processes; the underlying processes which you are
> truss'ing will probably resume.
>
> My experience for years has been that truss on FreeBSD is extremely
> buggy and cannot be relied upon (case in point).  Such is still the case
> on RELENG_8 as of today.
>
> Use ktrace(1) instead.  You'll find it to work pretty much in every
> situation.
>

Thanks, that worked. I'll use ktrace from now on.

Nikos