Re: [dtrace-discuss] tracing stops after a while, even with bufpolicy=ring

2010-04-01 Thread Adam Leventhal
Hey Philippe, Why are you using anonymous tracing? I suppose DTrace might be aborting and it might not have a way of alerting you. If you run dtrace(1M) with bufpolicy=ring you can still recover the data from a crash dump. Adam On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:28 AM, philippe magerus wrote: Hi, I

[dtrace-discuss] tracing stops after a while, even with bufpolicy=ring

2010-03-30 Thread philippe magerus
Hi, I need to do some anoymous tracing on a customer's system, as I need to catch events just before a panic. Even though the script has the following line : #pragma D option bufpolicy=ring Tracing stops after a few hours, and the event is missed. system is an x86 with KU 138889-07 Any