[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

Robert Milkowski
Wed, 23 May 2007 08:33:02 -0000

Hello Bryan,

Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 10:02:47 AM, you wrote:

BC> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:52:34AM +0200, Robert Milkowski
wrote:
>> Hello dtrace-discuss,
>>
>> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/6/preview.html
>> "Dynamic tracing AIX 6 provides a new dynamic tracing capability
that can simplify
>> debugging complex system or application code. This dynamic tracing
>> facility will be introduced via a new tracing command, probevue,
>> that allows a developer or system administrator to dynamically insert
>> trace breakpoints in existing code without having to recompile the
code."
>>
>>
>> dtrace like?

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.

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 Robert                            mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl