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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:21:44 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DTrace for FreeBSD - fbt output
Message-ID:  <200606141021.45669.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060614095449.GA82424@what-creek.com>
References:  <20060613021543.GA71283@what-creek.com> <20060614103614.Y34121@fledge.watson.org> <20060614095449.GA82424@what-creek.com>

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On Wednesday 14 June 2006 05:54, John Birrell wrote:
> > > critical_enter                                           4364385478
> > > critical_exit                                            4364385478
>=20
> The points I wanted to make about these calls are:
>=20
> 1. critical_enter is called so often that the debug printf that /could/
>    be compiled into it should cause an increase in global warming if
>    you tried. 8-)

No, it's not a printf to the console it's a printf into the a circular
buffer (see options KTR) and the system has been run with it enabled w/o
burning the machine up. :)

=2D-=20
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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