Making sense of ktrace(1) output

[Garrett Cooper]

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Jun-18 00:39:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>   
>> However, I was able to get ktrace output. The only problem is that ktrace(1) 
>> apparently outputs only in binary, instead of plaintext output. Can I 
>> convert it to plaintext somehow and process it?
>>     
>
> kdump(1)
>
>   
grazi to all that replied -- that did the trick :).

Now, note to self.. never ever do analysis on something so large as 
pkg_add thunderbird. Really, really bad idea :)..

I'll make up some Perl scripts, produce some histograms, and see if I 
can better trace down this bottleneck.

Thanks :),
-Garrett