Re: [tlug] meaning of dprofpp output

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> If it's hanging for 7 minutes, though, then you need to look at IO. I
> would try stopping Apache, and running "strace apache -D" (or maybe
> "strace httpd -D" depending on your distribution) and seeing what system
> calls are being made that are stopping it. This will produce a lot of
> output, but the only lines you're really interested in are the lines
> around the time then it hangs for a noticable period.

strace -o filename ...
will save strace's output to a file.  You will get a lot of
output.  This way you will have a file to look at after the
event.

Steve S.
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