"Out of ktrace request objects" 5.3-STABLE

[jhb at FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin)]

On Friday 04 February 2005 12:43 pm, Mike Hunter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dmesg told me:
>
> Out of ktrace request objects
>
> Indeed, I was ktracing yesterday.
>
> I saw this post but no replies:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/041586.html
>
> My system is a dual opteron:
>
> FreeBSD myserver.Net.Berkeley.EDU 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat
> Dec 11 10:56:35 PST 2004     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/myserver  amd64
>
> Should I be worried?'

It just means that some events weren't logged (kdump will tell you when there 
are dropped events via a 'events dropped' message, but it can't tell you how 
many were dropped or what kind they were).  You can up the number of request 
objects in the pool via the kern.ktrace.request_pool sysctl.

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