Re: DTrace for FreeBSD - fbt output

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:21:44 -0400
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 05:54, John Birrell wrote:
> > > critical_enter                                           4364385478
> > > critical_exit                                            4364385478
> 
> The points I wanted to make about these calls are:
> 
> 1. critical_enter is called so often that the debug printf that /could/
>    be compiled into it should cause an increase in global warming if
>    you tried. 8-)

No, it's not a printf to the console it's a printf into the a circular
buffer (see options KTR) and the system has been run with it enabled w/o
burning the machine up. :)

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Received on Wed Jun 14 2006 - 12:25:55 UTC

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