On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 05:53:00PM +0200, Lars Heidieker wrote: > I don't see the need either, I can understand it from debugging > purposes, but the stats malloc collects don't show who exactly > allocated but only the subsystem and that information is somewhat
This is valuable information actually. I can make a difference between e.g. USB and vnode, or acpi, or various parts of the network stack. > manual with passing types to malloc and free, some real tracing with > dtrace eg seems to be more appropriate too me for the job. - dtrace doesn't work everywhere (acutally I guess it's only x86, without Xen) - I'm not sure you want to have dtrace running on a production server. KMEMSTATS is more than pure debugging purpose, it also helps with tuning, and figuring out temporary overload. -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
