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Subject: Re: truss status
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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