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Date:      Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:11:40 +0100
From:      Peter Edwards <peadar.edwards@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Peter Edwards <peadar@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ktrace and KTR_DROP
Message-ID:  <34cb7c8405070107112ac9de26@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200507011005.21343.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20050701132104.GA95135@freefall.freebsd.org> <200507011005.21343.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On 7/1/05, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 09:21 am, Peter Edwards wrote:
> > Y'all,
> >
> > Ever since the introduction of a separate ktrace worker thread for
> > writing output, there's the distinct possibility that ktrace output
> > will drop requests. For some proceses, it's actually inevitable:
> > as long as the traced processes can sustain a rate of generating
> > ktrace events faster than the ktrace thread can write them, you'll
> > eventually run out of ktrace requests.
>=20
> The patch looks good to me, and I'd even be ok with having neverdrop on b=
y
> default.

FWIW, that would also be my preference, I was just being conservative.



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