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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:06:17 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: truss status
Message-ID:  <20060724130524.K44945@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200607241336.29993.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200607210845.k6L8j0Ep026008@repoman.freebsd.org> <86ac6z4xu1.fsf@xps.des.no> <200607241228.56938.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200607241336.29993.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> On Monday 24 July 2006 12:28, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> ktrace is a good disk filling service if you run it like this.
>>
>> truss IS more convenient.
>>
>> If kdump could write to a pipe it would be almost as convenient.
>
> Oh, and one more thing.. Ktrace is almost useless "out of the box" because 
> for any non-trivial operation you run out of requests.
>
> I usually have to bump up kern.ktrace.request_pool by an order of magnitude.

This has been fixed in 7.x, but I did not MFC it before 6.1 because I wanted 
it to see more testing.  We probably should MFC it for 6.2.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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