Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:40:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Tomasz Kłoczko <> | Subject | Re: Merging relayfs? |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vara Prasad wrote:
> Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: >> >>> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tomasz_K=B3oczko?= writes: >>> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> > >>> > OK .. "so you can say better is stop flushing buffers on measure which >>> > wil take day or more" ? :_) >>> > Some DTrace probes/technik are specialy prepared for long or evel very >>> > long time experiment wich will only prodyce few lines results on end of >>> > experiment. >>> > Look at DTrace documentation for speculative tracing: >>> > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223/6mlkidli7?a=view > > How do you propose to implement speculative tracing without a buffer to hold > the data, when data needs to stay in the kernel for a while before we decide > to commit or discard?
Buffering some data inside kernel space and buffering with infrastructure for transfer to user space this are two diffrent things.
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