stpd issues

Hien Nguyen hien@us.ibm.com
Tue Aug 23 21:06:00 GMT 2005


Martin Hunt wrote:

>Relayfs data arrives in big per-cpu chunks. As the chunks arrive they
>are saved to per-cpu datafiles.  When data collection stops (after ^C),
>stpd merges all the datafiles together and writes to stdout. It doesn't
>really make sense to stream data to stdout as it arrives for relayfs
>because it will be out-of-order.
>  
>
Thanks for your explanation. Anyway, what is the status of the stpd? I 
just update my src with the latest in CVS, stpd hangs my system when I 
press ctrl-c (running the same systrace module). It was just the stpd 
hung, and I could kill it.

Thanks, Hien.



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