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On Monday 24 July 2006 12:28, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> ktrace is a good disk filling service if you run it like this.
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> truss IS more convenient.
>
> If kdump could write to a pipe it would be almost as convenient.

Oh, and one more thing..
Ktrace is almost useless "out of the box" because for any non-trivial=20
operation you run out of requests.

I usually have to bump up kern.ktrace.request_pool by an order of magnitude.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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