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On Friday 15 February 2008 08:23:33 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > That's a pretty big advantage :)
> > >
> > > Also, ktrace can't write to a pipe which means you need to
> > > run/process rather than 'stream'.
> >
> > kdump -l.
> 
> Ahh nice!
> 
> However, you still keep the file around which can be rather space 
> consuming :(

Yes, but it also means you can do offline analysis later. :)  Tradeoffs
either way.

-- 
John Baldwin