[lttng-dev] clarification on limiting the size of the trace file

[Thibault, Daniel]

> > > We are working with lttng version 2.04.
> > This feature may not have been mature with version 2.0.4; I would recommend upgrading to at least 2.3 if not 2.4.
> Envoyé : 7 mai 2014 01:12
> This is what I understood should happen but in the actual run the lttng file fills all the free space in the partition 4GB.
> Mirit Sadon 

   I just ran a test and in both kernel and user-space tracing modes LTTng 2.3 behaved precisely as expected.  I can only suggest that your problem is probably due to LTTng 2.0.4 not handling the instructions correctly.  Upgrading is the solution.

Daniel U. Thibault
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