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OpenSolaris Community: DTrace

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An Overview of DTrace DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris™ Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs. The Solaris™ Dynamic Tracing Guide describes how to use DTrace to observe, debug and tune system behavior. The Solaris™ Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) Guide (here), also includes a complete reference for bundled DTrace observability tools and the D programming language. For Users: dynamically enable and manage thousands of probes dynamically associate predicates and actions with probes dynamically manage trace buffers and probe overhead examine trace data from a live system or from a system crash dump For Solaris™ Developers: implement new trace data providers that plug into DTrace implement trace data consumers that provide data display implement tools that configure DTrace probes For more information check out the out scripts and documentation. Getting Started See Chapter 1 of the DTrace Guide Bryan Cantrill's original Newsgroup Posting Read the DTrace Intro Many links are on BigAdmin DTrace Site How to get started Guide James Dickens What is DTrace Discussions Join the OpenSolaris DTrace Discussion For Reference Only, see the BigAdmin Forum Find Q&As in the XPerts Session Scripts Download the DTraceToolkit Brendan Gregg's DTrace Tools Visit DTrace Scripts on OpenSolaris Richard McDougall's DTrace Scripts Documentation DTrace Guide from docs.sun.com DTrace Topics from SolarisInternals.com The Solaris Performance and Tools book Technical Papers USENIX DTrace Paper Examples A few worked DTrace Examples Jay Danielsen's DTrace Case Study Dragan Cvetkovic's Example of USDT in SAX Related Projects DTrace Provider for NFSv4 DTrace Providers for various shells

Blogs

ahl - Apple updates DTrace... again

Oct 4, 12:46 PM

Back in January, I ranted about Apple's ham-handed breakage in their DTrace port. After some injured feelings and teary embraces, Apple cleaned things up a bit , but some nagging issues remained as I ...

jonh - Fast Reboot: tightening the loop on anonymous tracing

Oct 2, 6:41 AM

Back in the day, Bryan , Mike and Adam used to give a DTrace presentation that had a final slide entitled "The DTrace Revolution". I really liked this slide because it distilled into a single bullet ...

bmc - Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace!

Sep 3, 10:57 AM

It's hard to believe, but DTrace is five years old today: it was on September 3, 2003 that DTrace integrated into Solaris. DTrace was a project that extended all three of us to our absolute limit as ...

tpenta - Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 under Virtual Box and Upgrading it

Aug 31, 7:27 PM

I'm in the process of preparing a Transfer of information (TOI) for Support Services in Asia Pacific on some of the basic differences and things to watch out for in providing Support for OpenSolaris ...

tpenta - Second Life Blues Artist signed to recording contract

Aug 15, 6:47 PM

I have to say that this is incredibly cool. I've been listening to Von Johin for some time in Second Life and have the utmost respect for this awesome bluesman. I just heard yesterday that as a ...