From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 13:28:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA8B106566B for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8448FC14 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:28:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so9197820fxg.13 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:28:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.55.83 with SMTP id t19mr5706016fag.50.1317130136945; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.83.204 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:28:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [166.248.1.67] In-Reply-To: <4E81A31B.6080300@gmx.com> References: <4E819DF7.3060306@gmx.com> <20110927101008.GA27810@icarus.home.lan> <4E81A31B.6080300@gmx.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:28:56 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mark Saad To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: non-responding processes after truss(1)ing X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:28:58 -0000 On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > 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). =C2=A0Such is still the= case >> on RELENG_8 as of today. >> >> Use ktrace(1) instead. =C2=A0You'll find it to work pretty much in every >> situation. >> What about using dtruss in place of truss is the dtrace implementation of truss any better then the old libkvm ? > > Thanks, that worked. I'll use ktrace from now on. > > Nikos > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org