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Date:      Fri, 03 Jul 1998 14:09:52 +0200
From:      Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: trace/KTRACE 
Message-ID:  <199807031209.OAA24029@bowtie.nl>
In-Reply-To: kuku's message of Fri, 03 Jul 1998 11:24:53 %2B0200. <199807030924.LAA20365@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> 

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> I would like to find out where an application 'hangs' for
> some overly long time (possibly a network/socket call or something)
> 
> Recently I grabbed out 'trace-1.6' for a HP-UX machine which is
> supposed to be based on the SUN kernel trace interface.
> 
> The problem using the kernel option KTRACE would be
> that I cannot watch the application as it performs, instead I can
> only trace 'a posteriori'.
> 
> Would the be a way to support this utility and the kernel trace interface
> under FreeBSD?
> 
> Or are there any other ways (other than profiling, which is also an a
> posteriori method) to 'watch' what an app does?
> 
Can't you use gdb and attach to the running process?

gdb 'progname' 'pid'

Marc.

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