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trace

TRACE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  TRACE(1)

NAME

     trace -- configure and record kernel trace events

SYNOPSIS

     trace -h

     trace -i [-b numbufs]

     trace -g

     trace -d [-a pid | -x pid]

     trace -r

     trace -n

     trace -e [-c class [-p class] [-s subclass]] [-a pid | -x pid] [-k code | -k code | -k code | -k code]

     trace -E [-c class [-p class] [-s subclass]] [-a pid | -x pid] [-k code | -k code | -k code | -k code] executable_path
	   [optional args to executable]

     trace -t [-R rawfile] [-o OutputFilename] [-N] [ExtraCodeFilename1 ExtraCodeFilename2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The trace command allows developers to initialize and configure the kernel trace subsystem. Trace events can be recorded to an in-memory buf-
     fer, or logged directly to a file. Raw data files can later be decoded to a plaintext format.

SEE ALSO

     fs_usage(1), sc_usage(1), latency(1), top(1)

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