On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:36:14 -0700
Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > lttng can trace quite a few events.  Interrupts, system calls, etc.
> > Might be worth a look, and it's quite well maintained against various
> > kernel versions.
> 
> It's pretty heavyweight, but you could use filters to cut down on
> the events traced.  By default output goes to the file system, which
> could be on pramfs.  (Or NFS - I'm sorry I lost track of the original
> request - don't know if this is an option or not.)

Indeed, it is fairly heavy in what it traces.  I was just suggesting it
as a starting point.

> I'm not sure, however, that the buffers are pushed to user-space,
> through the daemon, and back to the file system in an expedient manner.
> I agree it might be worth a look for this use case.  We use it at
> Sony quite a bit and it's valuable.

With a little bit of work, you could have it trace into a circular
buffer in DRAM.  Then you can preserve that via mem= reservations,
etc.

josh
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