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i''m running the following script: #pragma D option quiet profile:::tick-1sec / ++x >= 15 / { exit(0); } io:::start { @io_size[execname] = sum(args[0]->b_bcount); } on exit, the script prints out the value of @io_size, why? there''s no printa(), and i also specified "D option quiet" (i also tried -q). this seems to happen with any kind of probe: on exit(0) all

...or folks to have a play with it and give me feedback. Brendan has also written some cool stuff on his blog about his playing with it (link in the above url). We''re considering other shells too, just not done them yet. Regards, Alan Hargreaves -- Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance) Systems Technical Support Centre Sun Microsystems

Is there a trick to listing available providers? I can''t find it.

I''m looking at bringing up a new Solaris 10 based file server running off an older UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz with 512mb ram. I''ve brought up the 11/06 release from scratch no patches installed at this time. I have 4 externally attached 36gb scsi devices off the hosts systems scsi bus. After setting up a few different zpool scenarios with mirrors, raidz, raidz2 to familiarize

Hello, I can see that there is an implementation/emulation of ddi_pathname in DTrace, but I''m a bit confused about the capabilities and invocation of this function. I would like to diplay the path to the block device from bdev_strategy and other io:genunix::start probes. If someone is familiar with ddi_pathname, could you please provide an example invocation? Thanks, Michael This

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? --