[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

Bryan Cantrill
Wed, 23 May 2007 16:45:41 -0000

> 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...

	- Bryan

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