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36.Dd June 6, 1993
37.Dt KDUMP 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm kdump
41.Nd display kernel trace data
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl djnlRT
45.Op Fl f Ar file
46.Op Fl m Ar maxdata
47.Op Fl t Op cnisuw
48.Op Fl p Ar pid
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm
52command displays the kernel trace files produced with
53.Xr ktrace 1
54in human readable format.
55By default, the file
56.Pa ktrace.out
57in the current directory is displayed.
58.Pp
59The options are as follows:
60.Bl -tag -width Fl
61.It Fl d
62Display all numbers in decimal.
63.It Fl j
64Use a fixed format output, otherwise a more human readable output is used.
65.It Fl f Ar file
66Display the specified file instead of
67.Pa ktrace.out .
68.It Fl l
69Loop reading the trace file, once the end-of-file is reached, waiting for
70more data.
71.It Fl m Ar maxdata
72Display at most
73.Ar maxdata
74bytes when decoding
75.Tn I/O ;
76set to
77.Cm 0
78to disable the size limit.
79.It Fl p Ar pid
80Display only records for process
81.Ar pid .
82.It Fl n
83Suppress ad hoc translations.
84Normally
85.Nm
86tries to decode many system calls into a more human readable format.
87For example,
88.Xr ioctl 2
89values are replaced with the macro name and
90.Va errno
91values are replaced with the
92.Xr strerror 3
93string.
94Suppressing this feature yields a more consistent output format and is
95easily amenable to further processing.
96.It Fl R
97Display relative timestamps (time since previous entry).
98.It Fl T
99Display absolute timestamps for each entry (seconds since epoch).
100.It Fl t Ar cnisuw
101See the
102.Fl t
103option of
104.Xr ktrace 1 .
105.El
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr ktrace 1
108.Sh HISTORY
109The
110.Nm
111command appeared in
112.Bx 4.4 .
113