On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Daniel B. Herrington wrote: > Well, the process itself will be multi-threaded. That's where the > vendor thinks things are going wrong, and the hope is getting the > strace output on the processes will allow us to catch an issue as it > happens. > > Is there a big performance hit in running strace (this is SLES 10) > and dumping to a file? It might be easier just to use -o and > preventively write all the output beforehand?
I usually dump to a file rather than stdout, just because the spew comes at such a high rate. Unless the machine's CPU or I/O subsystem is already overloaded, you shouldn't have much trouble writing to a file. Keep an eye on file size -- strace dumps can be large -- and you should be just fine. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
