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Re: [QUESTION] About the behavior when MAXACTION is exceeded
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Zexuan Luo <spacewanderlzx at gmail dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:41:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: [QUESTION] About the behavior when MAXACTION is exceeded
- References: <CAADJU11NvALaz+G1t96w_47PiqxLfuUT_T-pMTG12Y=1yhy2oQ@mail.gmail.com>
Zexuan Luo <spacewanderlzx@gmail.com> writes:
> When MAXACTION is exceeded, the systemtap will exit. But as MAXACTION
> is used to prevent a probe from running too much time, why not just
> aborting the current probe instead of quitting the whole session?
Aborting a probe running overtime is an error. Aborting a script when
an error occurs is a separate policy and is configurable with
-DMAXERRORS=NNN or --suppress-handler-errors.
- FChE