Software Trace Facility (STRACE)

STRACE is a software tracing mechanism that runs on OS/2 Warp Server for SMP. The following conditions must be met in order to enable software tracing:

• TRACE=OFF must be specified in the CONFIG.SYS file. This is a requirement of the existing TRACE command in OS/2.

• OS/2 Warp Server for SMP must be running on a Pentium, Pentium Pro, or better processor, since the 64-bit Time Stamp Counter is used as the timing mechanism.

Once data has been collected using STRACE, it may be copied to another OS/2 Warp or later system (along with the STRACE.EXE file from the OS2 directory on the boot drive) and processed using STRACE.