Making sense of ktrace(1) output
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 18 08:55:03 UTC 2007
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Jun-18 00:39:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> However, I was able to get ktrace output. The only problem is that ktrace(1)
>> apparently outputs only in binary, instead of plaintext output. Can I
>> convert it to plaintext somehow and process it?
>>
>
> kdump(1)
>
>
grazi to all that replied -- that did the trick :).
Now, note to self.. never ever do analysis on something so large as
pkg_add thunderbird. Really, really bad idea :)..
I'll make up some Perl scripts, produce some histograms, and see if I
can better trace down this bottleneck.
Thanks :),
-Garrett
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