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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:19:07 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: non-responding processes after truss(1)ing
Message-ID:  <4E81A31B.6080300@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110927101008.GA27810@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <4E819DF7.3060306@gmx.com> <20110927101008.GA27810@icarus.home.lan>

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On 9/27/2011 1:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> kill -9 your truss processes; the underlying processes which you are
> truss'ing will probably resume.
>
> My experience for years has been that truss on FreeBSD is extremely
> buggy and cannot be relied upon (case in point).  Such is still the case
> on RELENG_8 as of today.
>
> Use ktrace(1) instead.  You'll find it to work pretty much in every
> situation.
>

Thanks, that worked. I'll use ktrace from now on.

Nikos



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