dtrace discuss - Feb 2008 - dtrace documentation - how do you find/use it ?

Hi,

Aren''t you just missing "man -s5 dtrace"? How do you find
help if you
need some? I usually go to google and look for something like "dtrace
manual tracemem". Then skip in the results things like mailinglists and
blogs and go through the page. If it''s the wrong page, go back and
repeat until I''m bored. This does not work well for keywords like
"printf", "trace", "probe", where google returns
lot''s of uninteresting
stuff.

I do not want to use bookmarks too much, as I''m sitting in front of
different computers. But I always have my text terminal screen(s)
available, so commandline approach would be helpful.

I''m just interested if there is some more clever way.

Thank you

-- 
	Vlad
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> Aren''t you just missing "man -s5 dtrace"? How do you
find
> help if you need some?
For me, this was one of the fringe benefits of the documentation moving
to http://wikis.sun.com - it''s really easy to find, now. That URL is
short enough for me to remember, and unlike docs.sun.com, it''s just a
couple of clicks before you''re into the stuff you''re looking
for.

That said, I''ve often thought a quick reference card might be handy;
I''m
pretty sure Jon H showed me a Sun-only version of such a thing back in
the early days, although that could be my memory playing tricks. But it
seems so old-fashioned; perhaps some DTrace quick reference wallpaper,
with different levels of detail at different resolutions, might be the
answer :-)

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> > Aren''t you just missing "man -s5 dtrace"? How do
you find
> > help if you need some?
> For me, this was one of the fringe benefits of the documentation moving
> to http://wikis.sun.com - it''s really easy to find, now. That URL
is
> short enough for me to remember, and unlike docs.sun.com, it''s
just a
> couple of clicks before you''re into the stuff you''re
looking for.
Ah, there''s wikipedia. I didn''t know. "man dtrace"
does not suggest to
go there.

> That said, I''ve often thought a quick reference card might be
handy; I''m
> pretty sure Jon H showed me a Sun-only version of such a thing back in
> the early days, although that could be my memory playing tricks. But it
> seems so old-fashioned; perhaps some DTrace quick reference wallpaper,
> with different levels of detail at different resolutions, might be the
> answer :-)
I am thinking about downloading dynamic tracing guide as pdf and
converting it to txt.

Thank you for pointing me to the wiki
-- 
	Vlad
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> That said, I''ve often thought a quick reference card might be
handy; I''m
> pretty sure Jon H showed me a Sun-only version of such a thing back in
> the early days, although that could be my memory playing tricks. But it
> seems so old-fashioned; perhaps some DTrace quick reference wallpaper,
> with different levels of detail at different resolutions, might be the
> answer :-)
There seems to be a lot of people having memory issues today ;-) .
In the recesses I do remember a quick reference card that someone
did but I can''t seem to find it at the minute. I think that a well
done reference card would be useful.

I''ll have mine laminated though as Pot Noodle can make an awful mess...

Jon.