On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 09:11:42PM +0200, Mark Martinec wrote:
> More attempts at tracking this down. The suggested dtrace command does
> usually abort with:
> 
>    Assertion failed: (buf->dtbd_timestamp >= first_timestamp),
>      file 
> /usr/src/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_consume.c,
>      line 3330.

Hrmm.  As a workaround you can add "-x temporal=off" to the dtrace(1)
invocation.

> but with some luck soon after each machine reboot I can leave the dtrace
> running for about 10 or 20 seconds (max) before terminating it with a 
> ^C,
> and succeed in collecting the report.  If I miss the opportunity to 
> leave
> dtrace running just long enough to collect useful info, but not long
> enough for it to hit the assertion check, then any further attempt
> to run the dtrace script hits the assertion fault immediately.
> 
> Btw, (just in case) I have recompiled kernel from source 
> (base/release/11.2.0)
> with debugging symbols, although the behaviour has not changed:
> 
>    FreeBSD floki.ijs.si 11.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE #0 r337238:
>      Fri Aug 3 17:29:42 CEST 2018 
> m...@xxx.ijs.si:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FLOKI amd64
> 
> 
> Anyway, after several attempts I was able to collect a useful dtrace
> output from the suggested dtrace stript:
> 
> # dtrace -n 'dtmalloc::solaris:malloc {@allocs[stack(), args[3]] =
>    count()} dtmalloc::solaris:free {@frees[stack(), args[3]] = count()}'
> 
> while running "zpool list" repeatedly in another terminal screen:

I think running "zpool list" is adding a lot of noise to the output.
Could you retry without doing that? 
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