[dtrace-discuss] kernel pause/resume

James C. McPherson
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:13:13 -0000

Michael Bergknoff wrote:
...
> I should have mentioned that I looked into chill but the manual said
> it''s not safe to chill for more than a few hundred milliseconds
due to
> issues with interrupts in the probed context. I''m looking at
starting
> one thread and pausing for minutes before resuming in another thread. As
> for stop() I believe that stops on the way out of the kernel which is
> not what I need.

Then clearly you''ve got some serious constraints to work under.
I don''t envy you :)


What problem are you trying to solve?


James C. McPherson
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