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G''Day Folks, Well, this one was my white whale. I now have a demonstration program that uses Perl, Kstat, /proc/*/usage, /proc/*/psinfo, and DTrace. The program itself is more of a prototype, I want to get serious about it and rewrite it in C. It currently has output like, # prustat -t5 -snet 10 PID %CPU %Mem %Disk %Net COMM 90 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 syseventd 443 0.00 0.13 0.00 0.00 snmpd 102 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 picld 10096 0.00 0.35 0.00 0.00 bash 445 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dtlogin PID %CPU...

I see Intel has released a new tool. Oh, it requires some patches to the kernel to record latency times. Good thing people don''t mind patching their kernels, eh? So who can write the equivalent latencytop.d the fastest? ;-) http://www.latencytop.org/ -- cburgess at qnx.com

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