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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

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''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?

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

How do I query an application to see if it supports any USDT probe points?

Hi, I''m working on some performance analysis with our database and it seems that when the file system (UFS) is mounted with forcedirectio, the IO probe are not triggered when an I/O event occurs. Could you confirm that ? If so, why ? Seb -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

Hi All, I''ve got a problem when I have USDT probes in a static library and in the application code outside of the library. I build the static library containing some USDT probes, glomming everything together (ld -r) before creating the .a file to preserve the probe symbols. This all works fine. I build an application which also has some USDT probes. When I build the application which

I''d like to prepend TRACE_ to the macro names generated by dtrace -h. For example, change POSTGRESQL_LWLOCK_ACQUIRE(arg0, arg1) to TRACE_POSTGRESQL_LWLOCK_ACQUIRE(arg0, arg1) and still keep postgresql as the provider name. The reason for doing this is to make it clear that the macros are used for (D)tracing. In this particular case, without TRACE_, it appears like the macro is used

I''m not sure if this is the right place for the question or not, but I''ll throw it out there anyways. Does anyone know, if you create your pool(s) with a system running fishworks, can that pool later be imported by a standard solaris system? IE: If for some reason the head running fishworks were to go away, could I attach the JBOD/disks to a system running snv/mainline

Hi All, Can I get Dtrace command, which is useful for regular system administration like performance issue. Advance Thanks Muthu -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hello, everyone I am a newbie of DTrace and OpenSolaris. Just wondering is it possible to trace every memory read/write of a specific process given the pid? Basically speaking, I want to record the virtual addresses being accessed by the process, using which I will try to do some online analysis. If DTrace does not support this type of instrumentation, will other tools in OpenSolaris help me

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 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

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, 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

X.Org has adopted GNU autoconf as its build configuration mechanism, so when I integrated the dtrace probes, I checked to see if they should be built using this test, checking for the existence of a program named "dtrace" in the path: dnl Check for dtrace program (needed to build Xserver dtrace probes) AC_ARG_WITH(dtrace, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-dtrace=PATH], [Enable dtrace

Hi: I''m running Indiana (OpenSolaris developer preview) under parallels in OS X 10.5.1. I can consistently get Solaris to hang. Doing a dtrace -n pid\$target::malloc:entry''{@=count()}'' -c ls will consistently hang Solaris. Basically doing anything with PID provider with the -c option seems to hangs Solaris. Only way to recover is to stop and start Parallels desktop.

What''s going on? # dtrace -s iotime_all.d 100 dtrace: failed to enable ''iotime_all.d'': DIF program content is invalid The errant script.... #pragma D option quiet BEGIN { stime = timestamp; io_count = 0; } io:::start /args[2]->fi_pathname != "<none>"/ { start[pid, args[2]->fi_pathname, args[0]->b_edev, args[0]->b_blkno,