[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

陶捷 Euler Tao
Thu, 24 May 2007 04:10:50 -0000

oh!!! I''m wrong!
some of this list are the features, not new providers.
I''m careless just now...


2007/5/24, ?? Euler Tao <eulertao at gmail.com>:
>
> oh my god! half of these are not listed on the sun''s dtrace
documentation.
> I''m now using the S10u3 :)
>
>
> 2007/5/24, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems <brendan at sun.com>:
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:45:41AM -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
> > >
> > > > BC> I think it''s safe to say that IBM is
ignoring my suggestion:
> > > >
> > > > BC>   http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/dtrace_on_aix
> > > >
> > > > BC> As for "probevue", we know very little
about it (googling for
> > "probevue"
> > > > BC> current yields three hits:  one is the link you
quoted, one is
> > some
> > > > BC> blog entry saying that this "sure as hell sounds
like DTrace"
> > and the
> > > > BC> last is in Russian).  From the little that we do
know, it seems
> > unlikely
> > > > BC> to be a holistic DTrace-like solution, but
we''ll see...
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps it would be interesting if someone would install and
check
> > AIX 6 Open
> > > > Beta - I don''t have a free POWER server nearby.
> > >
> > > Yes, that would be great.  I don''t think the Open Beta
is available
> > yet,
> > > but if anyone is both a DTrace user and an AIX customer, it would
be
> > great
> > > to see a comparison of probevue and DTrace once the former is in
> > Beta...
> >
> > Sounds interesting - if someone does check out probevue, the following
> > are
> > some of the Solaris DTrace features to compare against:
> >
> > Solaris DTrace features (mostly from memory),
> >
> >        - dynamic kernel tracing                (fbt:::)
> >        - static kernel tracing                 (sdt:::)
> >        - kernel profiling                      (profile:::)
> >        - high resolution profiling             (cyclics)
> >        - anonymous tracing                     (dtrace -a)
> >        - postmortem tracing                    (mdb)
> >        - dynamic process tracing               (pid:::)
> >        - static process tracing                (sdt:::)
> >        - dynamic process instruction tracing   (pid:::)
> >        - process profiling                     (profile:::)
> >        - syscall tracing                       (syscall:::)
> >        - kernel lock tracing                   (lockstat:::)
> >        - user lock tracing                     (plockstat:::)
> >        - system info tracing                   (sysinfo:::)
> >        - virtual memory tracing                (vminfo:::)
> >        - scheduler tracing                     (sched:::)
> >        - process event tracing                 (proc:::)
> >        - I/O tracing                           (io::: disk/nfs)
> >        - filesystem tracing                    (fsinfo:::, fbt:::)
> >        - system event tracing                  (sysevent:::)
> >        - Java tracing                          (hotspot*:::)
> >        - JavaScript tracing                    (javascript*:::)
> >        - Ruby tracing                          (ruby*:::)
> >        - iSCSI tracing                         (iscsitgt*:::)
> >        - X11 tracing                           (Xserver*:::)
> >        - kernel stack tracing                  (stack())
> >        - process stack tracing                 (ustack())
> >        - java stack tracing                    (jstack())
> >        - aggregations                          (@, printa())
> >        - predicates                            (//)
> >        - thread local storage                  (self->)
> >        - clause local storage                  (this->)
> >        - speculative tracing                   (speculate())
> >        - is-enabled probes                     (*_ENABLED)
> >        - switch buffers                        (bufpolicy=switch)
> >        - ring buffers                          (bufpolicy=ring)
> >        - fill buffers                          (bufpolicy=fill)
> >        - translators                           (translator <>)
> >        - privileges                            (dtrace_proc, ...)
> >        - DTrace test suite                     (SUNWdtrt)
> >        - scriptability                         (#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s)
> >        - cacheable predicates
> >        - stability framework
> >        - JNI Binding
> >        - chime GUI
> >
> > A few of those features the latest Solaris bits, and/or additional
> > providers to be downloaded and added.
> >
> > Sorry if I missed something important.. And of course, there are more
> > DTrace features in the works.
> >
> > Perhaps worth mentioning are the indirect features one gets with
DTrace,
> > such as:
> >
> >        - DTrace community                      (us!)
> >        - Dynamic Tracing Guide                 (PDF/html,
docs.sun.com)
> >        - DTraceToolkit                         (100+ scripts)
> >        - Production since 2005
> >
> > Brendan
> >
> > --
> > Brendan
> > [CA, USA]
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> >
>
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