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...in such a thing drop me a line and we''ll figure out if we''ve got enough for a quorum. And if not, Mike, Adam, Brendan and I will just decamp to a nearby bar and call it a conference... ;) - Bryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems FishWorks. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc

...to order by key. -- Philip Beevers Fidessa Infrastructure Development mailto:philip.beevers at fidessa.com phone: +44 1483 206571 > -----Original Message----- > From: dtrace-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:dtrace-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org]On Behalf Of Bryan > Cantrill > Sent: 15 September 2005 07:29 > To: Jonathan Haslam > Cc: dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org; Dragan Cvetkovic > Subject: Re: [dtrace-discuss] Can I use printa() for printing multiple > aggregations? > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:00:21PM +0100, Jonathan Haslam wrote: &...

Hello dtrace-discuss, Sometimes I want to run a script for some time and every n second output N top entries. trunc() isn''t suitable here as it also removed keys/values. I want it ''coz over time if I use sum() entries which are normally truncated can actually get to top over a time. Maybe printa() extension, something like: printa(@b[10]) - to output top 10? --

Howdy, Is there a method to get the number of elements in an aggregation? Are the results stored in an aggregation guaranteed to be in any type of order? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty

Hi, Has something related to speculative tracing changed between s10 FCS and the more recent nevada builds ? I was trying the specopen.d script from the Dtrace guide on a nevada machine and it failed with : dtrace: failed to enable ''./spec.d'': DIF program content is invalid To try and narrow things down a bit I wrote the following short script. This works fine on s10, but

...ken as my vote in the affirmative, so between the other four we need two affirmatives (and no negatives) and then the Erlang DTrace project will be open for business. The polls are now officially open... ;) - Bryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems FishWorks. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc

Hi, This is not a DTrace technical question (so, please don''t flame me for it) :) This is regarding the DTrace (un)conference TShirt. I am curious to know what engine is it. Could not figure it out. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev. -- Solaris Revenue Products Engineering, India Engineering Center, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. Tel: x27521 +91 80 669 27521

I''d like to see if we can use DTrace to as the kernel implementation of the BSD systrace security policy system (http://www.systrace.org). I don''t really want to port systrace to Solaris because I think with DTrace we already have all the necessary in kernel hooks to do this. With systrace you express things like: "httpd can bind to port 80 but not any other port, it

G''Day Folks, I''ve finally typed up my classic DTrace demo, which I use to introduce people to DTrace (I delivered this at SOSUG#1), http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/dtracevstruss.html Here I create a fault and show the difficulty in analysing it using previous tools. Then I compare the impact of analysing the problem using both DTrace and truss. DTrace wins (a lot!).

N_conreq:entry { self->x=1; calledaddr=(struct xaddrf *)arg3; callingaddr=(struct xaddrf *)arg4; trace(calledaddr->link_id); tracemem(calledaddr->DTE_MAC.lsap_add, 80); trace(callingaddr->link_id); tracemem(callingaddr->DTE_MAC.lsap_add, 80); } 0 -> N_conreq 255

Referring to the DTrace manual: "Module If this probe corresponds to a specific program location, the name of the module in which the probe is located. This name is either the name of a kernel module or the name of a user library. Function If this probe corresponds to a specific program location, the name of the program function in which the probe is located." and then ...

Unless I am missing something I cannot find a way to do a condtional check and handle it when a dtrace script is written with macros $1, $2 being passed to it, etc... In other words I have a dtrace script that can have parameters passed to it. Lets say $1 and $2 for example. I am trying to verity that there is or is not a value for $1 or $2 and adjust accordingly. I am finding that if use macros

This is a semantic question. (I''m doing some technical writing about DTrace.) I''ll little confused about how to explain what an "action" is. By any definition, "trace(x);" is an action. However, what about just "i++;"? Looking at the DTrace guide page 76: "Probe actions are described by a list of statements separated by semicolons (;)

Boy am I a dummy. I want to simply dump out unfreed allocations when I terminate the script. What''s the secret sauce? #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s pid$1::MyAlloc:return { bufs[arg1] = walltimestamp; } pid$1::MyFree:entry /bufs[arg0]/ { bufs[arg0] = 0; } This message posted from opensolaris.org

As of patch 32953 dtrace support is in bleadperl (5.11.0). The probes are based on Alan Burlinson''s original blog post on the subject: http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/date/20050909 By guarding the probes with PERL_SUB_*_ENABLED the performance hit is unmeasurable. All the necessary bits already existed in the wild. I just assembled them and made the necessary changes to

There is a Slashdot discussion today titled "Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace". Slashdot anonymous member has a comment "Even Sun''s Dtrace might be vulnerable." I don''t think it is. Comments? Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers http://www.watson.org/~robert/2007woot/2007usenixwoot-exploitingconcurrency.pdf Abstract

So I realize this is somewhat stupid, and I''ve actually gotten myself out of kmdb to kill my dtrace script but this has happened in the past and I''m wondering if there''s any better way around it than hitting :c a bunch of times. Say you set a breakpoint() to fire in a common function. This will drop you into kmdb where you can do some debugging, you take a look around

I''m trying to profile the time spent in libc functions in a large build job (building Perl), and I have trouble getting ufunc and func working. (func() is not strictly needed; I was just hoping to use it in order to profile idle time.) Here''s the story. I''ve written a dtrace script to start a separate dtrace process for each invoked command: int fileid;

What is causing this error: dtrace: processing aborted: Abort due to systemic unresponsiveness It happens to my script which shows all the NFS operations coming through common_dispatch() on a server. I wasn''t the one running the test, so I don''t know how long it ran before it died. The script uses a couple of static probes and a couple fbt. Thanks, jim -------------- next

While using DTrace to track down a problem recently, we came across an unexpected restriction: the compiler will not permit different speculations to be committed in the same instance of a probe identifier. For instance, consider the following useless D script: #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s #pragma D option nspec=2 BEGIN { spec1 = speculation(); spec2 = speculation(); } END {