From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 09:31:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E3237B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879DB43FA3 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 10938 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 16:31:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 31 Jul 2003 16:31:15 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6VGVDGI071580; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:31:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:31:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:31:17 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/