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authordsmith <dsmith>2007-03-30 13:43:04 +0000
committerdsmith <dsmith>2007-03-30 13:43:04 +0000
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2007-03-30 David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
* stap.1.in: Corrected probe overload processing text.
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@@ -834,14 +834,14 @@ Any pending trace messages may be lost.
.PP
In addition to the methods outlined above, the generated kernel module
-also uses overload processing to make sure that no probe can run for
+also uses overload processing to make sure that probes can't run for
too long. If more than STP_OVERLOAD_THRESHOLD cycles (default
-500000000) have been spent in a single probe during the last
-STP_OVERLOAD_INTERVAL cycles (default 1000000000), the probe has
-overloaded the system and an exit is triggered.
+500000000) have been spent in all the probes on a single cpu during
+the last STP_OVERLOAD_INTERVAL cycles (default 1000000000), the probes
+have overloaded the system and an exit is triggered.
.PP
By default, overload processing is turned on for all modules. If you
-would like to disable overload processing, define STP_OVERLOAD.
+would like to disable overload processing, define STP_NO_OVERLOAD.
.SH FILES
.\" consider autoconf-substituting these directories