[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

陶捷 Euler Tao
Wed, 23 May 2007 09:31:15 -0000

After IBM introduces this probevue, dose it mean there exists a
kernel-supported dynamic instrumentation tools  in all Unix/Linux OS?
Solairs, FreeBSD, MacOS - DTrace
Linux - kprobe-based SystemTap
AIX - probevue
HPUX ... no more development on this system in hp, we will ignore this
soon...

2007/5/23, Bryan Cantrill <bmc at eng.sun.com>:
>
> 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?
>
> I think it''s safe to say that IBM is ignoring my suggestion:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/dtrace_on_aix
>
> As for "probevue", we know very little about it (googling for
"probevue"
> current yields three hits:  one is the link you quoted, one is some
> blog entry saying that this "sure as hell sounds like DTrace" and
the
> last is in Russian).  From the little that we do know, it seems unlikely
> to be a holistic DTrace-like solution, but we''ll see...
>
>        - Bryan
>
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