Re: [PATCH] dtrace probes for memory manager

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:22 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have a set of probes that would only be enabled
> > with say, --enable-debug compile time option?
>
> But we routinely build with that for normal production use so that if
> we get a core dump or need to backtrace a problem process, we will get
> meaningful results.  Please don't create a performance penalty for
> compiling with debug info.  (We'd probably wind up disabling it....)

Good point but I still say that the probes are useful. I am not sure we
have a good compile time flag for it right now but it seems that would
be the way to do it.

Joshua D. Drake


>
> -Kevin
>


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