[lttng-dev] "lttng enable-channel --tracefile-size" bug

Julien Desfossez jdesfossez at efficios.com
Sat May 28 13:21:57 UTC 2016


> Hi,
> it looks like for the "enable-channel" command, "tracefile-size" option
> doesn't take effect, bellow are all the options, the resulted files have
> the actual size the same as the size specified by subbuf-size option:
>  
> # lttng -V
> lttng (LTTng Trace Control) 2.7.1 - Herbe à Détourne
> 
> $ lttng enable-channel chan_name -u -s session_name --discard
> --num-subbuf 8 
>             --subbuf-size 32M --tracefile-size 8K --tracefile-count 8
> --buffers-pid

Yes, that is the expected behaviour, we work with packets (sub-buffers),
so the smallest unit we can store is the subbuf-size.

With 2.7.3 I get this warning when I try your command:
Warning: Tracefile size rounded up from (8192) to subbuffer size (33554432)

Julien


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