Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:55:01 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making sense of ktrace(1) output Message-ID: <46764865.9030203@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070618081532.GI1181@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <467636C0.6040604@u.washington.edu> <20070618081532.GI1181@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2007-Jun-18 00:39:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >> However, I was able to get ktrace output. The only problem is that ktrace(1) >> apparently outputs only in binary, instead of plaintext output. Can I >> convert it to plaintext somehow and process it? >> > > kdump(1) > > grazi to all that replied -- that did the trick :). Now, note to self.. never ever do analysis on something so large as pkg_add thunderbird. Really, really bad idea :).. I'll make up some Perl scripts, produce some histograms, and see if I can better trace down this bottleneck. Thanks :), -Garrett
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