[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

陶捷 Euler Tao
Thu, 24 May 2007 04:06:22 -0000

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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