Re: DTrace?

There is work going on to add dtrace support to FreeBSD, which I expect
could migrate to the other BSDs as well. AFAIK *BSD is actually more
popular among the developers than linux, so dtrace support could well
happen.

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:29:12PM -0700, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> From what I understand DTrace is rather tough to use. Secondly it will
> provide Solaris only information, so if you are suggesting helpfulness for
> just Solaris, then yes it would be. I don't think that DTrace is available
> for Solaris 8 and 9, the company I work for is still on 8 with possibly
> some 7's hanging around somewhere, which is where I expect alot of people
> to still be, Solaris 10 hasn't been adopted as widely as expected by Sun,
> it may gain some momentum with OpenSolaris, but we shall have to see.
>
> karen hill wrote:
> >I skimmed the thread "Spinlocks, yet again: analysis
> >and proposed patches". Wouldn't Solaris 10's DTrace
> >be helpful in seeing what's going on? It seems DTrace
> >was meant for these types of problems.
> >
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