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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 ...

Hi, all, I''m a newbie on dtrace and the problem I am having is: For processes which have been running for more than a couple of hours, dtrace doesn''t seem to be able to trace(I waited for at least one hour and didn''t see anything happening). However, it works every time for a relatively new process. Any insight or help will be appreciated. This is my machine:

Digitally Imported radio (http://di.fm) is considering adding Ogg Vorbis streams and I'd love to see that happen. Probably they are trying to get an idea how many people will use the Vorbis streams to decide if it will be worthwhile (they're also considering other formats--WMA, mp3pro, and other evils). So if you are a DI listener, please make your voice heard that WE WANT OGG! There

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 (;)

OK, I''ve been fritzing around with something I noticed last night, thinking that I understood what was going on, but now it''s getting confusing again. A system that has been running for a couple of months had a hole in the probe ID list near the end in the middle of the fbt probes. And then a couple of syscall probes were stuck in the hole. It looked like this: ... 40311

I''ve been trying to get access to a userland string that''s behind a second level pointer using DTrace, but I can''t seem to get it to work. I started with the example on the Team DTrace Tips and Tricks slides: trace(copyinstr(*(uintptr_t *)copyin(arg0, curpsinfo->pr_dmodel == PR_MODEL_ILP32 ? 4 : 8))); And when I couldn''t get it to work, I started