Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:31:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck Message-ID: <XFMail.20030731123133.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307301410410.23956-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 30-Jul-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> I have a patch that adds a simple paging facility to ddb at the >> db_printf() level using a one-shot callback mechanism. It includes >> a simple paging callback that rearms itself based on the users >> input (space does another page, enter another line). I've used this >> facility to replace the hand-rolled paging in 'ps', 'show pci', and >> 'show ktr'. The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ddb.patch >> >> Comments? >> >> Also, I notice that we have a 'show threads' command commented out from >> the original Mach sources. I think we should change 'ps' back to just >> showing simple process info (and hopefully back to 80 cols) and only >> print thread info for 'show threads'. Maybe show threads should take a >> PID as the argument? > > > we do have "show thread (addr)" > that shows the stacktrace. > > "show threads {pid}" > would be good to identify the address > of the thread to examine.. > >> >> Thus, one would have: >> >> db> ps >> 1 blah blah sleeping on "foo" >> 2 blah blah threaded >> >> db> show threads 2 >> 0 blah blah sleeping on "bar" >> 1 blah blah running on cpuX >> > > currently ps shows the threads by default.. > either way is ok I guess. ps is hardly readable anymore because it is so cluttered now. I would like ps to go back to something more like it was prior to KSE and then use a separate show threads when one needs info about threads within a process. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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