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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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	Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote:
> > > Is it called once an year or 500000 times a second ?
> > > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ?
> > 
> >    Add a statement like
> > 
> > 	printf("somefunc() being called!\n");
> > 
> >    to the top of the function you want to 'measure'.
> > 
> > 
> 
> You can compile the kernel with -p -g and use the profiling.
> 

Julian's way is the best however a quick 'n dirty would be just
to create a sysctl node for your counter, useful if you only have
a couple of things you want to track.

-Alfred



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