Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:50:51PM +1000, Ip Wing Kin John wrote:
>> (running DTrace tool kit iofile.d script to show I/O wait time by
>> filename and process)
> Is the dtrace toolkit a viable product for a linux environment or
> is it strickly Sun/Oracle?
dtrace is available on Solaris and Mac OS X and probably a couple
other platforms, but not Linux. For Linux there is SystemTap,
which does largely the same kinds of things but has a different
scripting syntax ...
regards, tom lane