ktrace and KTR_DROP

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 01 July 2005 09:21 am, Peter Edwards wrote:
> Y'all,
>
> Ever since the introduction of a separate ktrace worker thread for
> writing output, there's the distinct possibility that ktrace output
> will drop requests. For some proceses, it's actually inevitable:
> as long as the traced processes can sustain a rate of generating
> ktrace events faster than the ktrace thread can write them, you'll
> eventually run out of ktrace requests.

The patch looks good to me, and I'd even be ok with having neverdrop on by 
default.

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