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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: trace over network is supported?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100910132122.GB26765@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C89D4AB.7020902@hitachi.com>

Hi, Masami -

> > One can invoke stap over an ssh or similar connection, so to that
> > extent, "yes, it can.".  What do you mean exactly?
> 
> Yeah, I know about tracing over ssh connection, but
> that is too heavy to record high-freq system events
> (e.g. systemcalls).
>
> I meant that something like trace-data listener and
> sender over UDP or TCP.

If the heaviness comes from the encryption provided by ssh, then one
can tie stap straight to tcp/udp sockets with wrappers like netcat.
Beyond some copy-elimination a la splice(2), do you think there is
much to be done?

- FChE

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-09 11:29 Masami Hiramatsu
2010-09-09 14:21 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2010-09-10  6:48   ` Masami Hiramatsu
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTi=w3YfnZhKerWiSsd0RpcgJi61Xufr8JRXJzVO5@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-10  7:46       ` Tim Beaulen
2010-09-10 13:21     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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