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Hi, we are developing and operating an very critical application in the financial sector. Now our customer wants us to report performance data (roundtrip times of the messages routed). My idea is using dtrace to measure the times with the pid provider catching the timestamps on entry of the in and out functions of the processes. Now my questions ;-): 1) Is this an appropriate method to monitor

Hi, I have used dtrace in the past for diagnosing IO/filesystem related issues. So I am a bit familiar with dtrace scripts Now I want to diagnose performance problems in the java area. May be memory leak etc. The hotspot provider is not present. How can I get them? Does someone have any further advice? regards Hans -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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!).

I''m pleased to pass along news that the Mac OS X DTrace port has been updated in 10.5.3 to fix the issue that caused timer based probes not to fire in the presence of certain untraceable applications. http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/apple_updates_dtrace A big thank you to the folks at Apple for addressing the problem. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks

everyone, Just out of curiosity, I did a dtrace -n ''syscall:::entry { @num[execname, probefunc] = count(); }'' and looked at the entries produced by ''rm''. I see everything that rm did, *except* the unlinkat - which is unfortunate because I want to trace which processes have deleted which files. So - does dtrace contain unlinkat as a probe for a system call?

I have added a specification of probes for the fibre channel COMSTAR port provider to the DTrace section of wikis.sun.com. The proposal may be found here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/fibre+channel+Provider I welcome feedback regarding this proposal. Thanks, Sam

hi folks we''re in final approach with Brendan''s work on the TCP and UDP providers, which have been discussed here previously in the context of the overall networking provider plan at: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+dtrace/NetworkProvider The specs have been updated to reflect recent changes and are available for review here:

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

Greetings, is there a way to specify probes and other dtrace operations via command line parameters, like " BEGIN { usr_exec=$$1; usr_syscall=$$2; } syscall::usr_syscall:entry /execname == usr_exec && guard++ == 0/ { ... " [this does not work] This would make it possible to create "generic" dtrace scripts. Otherwise, some shellscript with sed-magic would

I''m running OpenSolaris 2008.05 in VirtualBox on a Windows XP host. Playing around with various probes, I found that trying to load any probe associated with bdev_strategy dumps core. I can think of one or two likely and reasonable causes for this, but am assuming it''s undesirable behavior. Anyone know what''s happening here? -- This message posted from

I have a number of systems running solaris10 and i see the package and binary for dtrace installed however whenever we try to run anything we get this error dtrace: failed to initialize dtrace: DTrace device not available on system the only system in which i dont have this error is the development server that has the full solaris 10 install while others are minimized, do i need additional

Dear Experts, My customer is migrating to Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and have asked me to determine if: With Dtrace, is the user limited to probing only processes they own? The customer has a general security requirement to control user access via management of privileges. Currently, on Solaris 8, LDAP is strongly while RBAC is weakly applied. This will likely change in the Solaris 10 production

This came up as an RFE during the conference (I believe it''s been logged as "4012008: brendan() action needed for DTrace Toolkit".) As everyone here is aware, DTrace is not quite as user friendly as it could be. For the uninitiated, it can be confusing to run a DTrace script and not see the expected output. Brendan Gregg has addressed this in the DTrace Toolkit[1] by

Hi all, What is the correct way to give one non-root user the ability to use DTrace with providers running in a process by another user? Through the Web Stack project and some work by Ludovic Champenois and Nasser Nouri, we have done a bit of work to bring together parts of chime, the Web Stack Apache, Ruby and PHP providers, and stuff reused from the DTrace toolkit. It''s in

Hi there, I am trying to diagnose a performance problem on a Sun T5120 running Solaris 10. I see general poor performance using Java and, in particular, loading classes. I have developed a simple java test that loads all of the classes in a Crystal Reports JAR file (around 7000 classes) which takes much longer on the T5120 (40 secs) than on a Core 2 Duo windows PC (5 secs). I recognise that this

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

The open solaris dtrace page (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/) has a bad link to the DTrace Guide(http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-6223). This message posted from opensolaris.org

Howdy, I am trying to migrate several scripts to use application defined types, and am running into a few issues. When I attempt to run a script with a application defined type, it looks like the DTrace preprocessor is getting angry with me: $ cat view.d #include "httpd.h" :::acceptconnection { this->addr = (conn_rec *)copyin(arg0,sizeof(conn_rec *)); } $ dtrace -C

Hi, I am adding DTrace probes within NFS v3 client. In my current implementation, I use some tsd_*() functions and kmem_zalloc() function. These functions might be heavy and affect the performance. I want to call this function only when DTrace is running or the DTrace probes are enable. So is there a way to check DTrace is running or DTrace probe is enabled? Regards, Danhua

Just to let people know what my big picture is, I''m trying to write a script that will let me run a program, and name a progeny of that program that I want to debug. My script should find the first occurrence of that progeny, and run it until it finishes initializing the runtime linker, but stop it before it runs any shared library startup routines. (Failing that, I''d be okay