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To: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
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Subject: Re: NFS (vfs-related) syscall logging
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 16 Jun 2002 22:44:01 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch> writes:

     > I will extend it and add yet another proc-fs variable in
     > /proc/sys/sunrpc/ which will represent a bitmask to selectively
     > enable/disable which syscalls should be logged.


Ugh...

The volume of information you propose to log is going to be seriously
huge and *will* affect performance. It would probably be a lot more
efficient to log using 'tcpdump' (and the libpcap binary format)
instead of all those printks.

Cheers,
  Trond
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