From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 16 02:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA27935 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA27930 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA28889 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:22:01 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA20215 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:22:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA00689 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:58:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606160858.KAA00689@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ktrace [Was: 2.2-960612-SNAP resolver problems] To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:58:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606160656.QAA19860@felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au> from Pat Caldon at "Jun 16, 96 04:56:09 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Pat Caldon wrote: > > I wonder whether we should turn on ktrace by default. It seems to do > Yes! as a recent convert to FreeBSD about a year ago I was trying to > debug some wierdnesses in a httpd and ktrace was invaluable, after I got > it working. Which only took hours as I had to build my first kernel. > It should be in GENERIC like this: > > options KTRACE # Kernel Tracing; adds ~4k to kernel Well, right now i've counted about four ``aye''s, and one ``nope'' from Nate. I'm not going to do the deed unless Nate seems to be convinced about its usefulness, too, (so the only know objection is withdrawn) or unless there's an overwhelming ``Go for it''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)