Re: Multiple swap partition uglies (fwd)

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
26 May 1998 10:25:57 -0500


Paul Wilkins <paulw@tmpw.com.au> writes:

> Seeing as Netscape is where the problem is most evident, is a strace on
> Netscape the best approach to solving the problem? Should be simple to
> write a short program to keep just the last meg of strace output, run
> Netscape, wait for the box to commence its grinding behaviour, then examine
> the strace dump?

strace wouldn't help here. You want to look for a patch/program combo
called ktrace. BTW, `strace ... | tail -c 1m' will give you what you
asked for if you quit netscape or kill strace immediately afterwards. :-)

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