On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:23:24 +0100 David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> wrote:
> What I need: Start tracing and flush all buffers when exiting. (e.g. Why don't you use "trace-cmd start" and "trace-cmd extract"? "trace-cmd record" is all about not losing events. If you are creating a big buffer, then I think you want to use this. # trace-cmd start -p <tracer> -e <events> -b <big-buffer-size> # run test # trace-cmd stop # trace-cmd extract Wouldn't that work for you? -- Steve > after 30 seconds). Never wakeup in between, so the real trace overhead > in that period of time is purely storing the tracepoints to the buffer > in the kernel. Of course we could implement something like that ("copy > from the buffer only when exiting") or try to see if we can fix the > existing "-s" flag in a way that allows it.