similar to: User Privileges and Dtrace

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

Hello, According to http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4970596 and other notes I read it appears that the ability to run dtrace programs (by having dtrace_proc and dtrace_user privileges configured inside NGZ''s) has been made available (through various projects) since build 37 of Nevada. I am not merely referring to configurable privileges alone, but to

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''m trying to do some userspace tracing on a server-process with the pid provider. My problem is, that the only probes the pid-provider lists for the server-process (to which I attach dtrace with "-p nnnn") are coming from "ld.so.1". There''s not a single one from my modules. If I''m specifying "a.out" (or any of our shared-objects) as the

hey.. I talked to my sysadmins about getting access to the dtrace_kernel role, and they said they were hesitant to give this out because they thought it was a security risk - ie: that you could use it for privilege escalation. How true is this? Is there a way to make it user safe? If not, why is it offered as an option for regular users? Thanks much, Ed -- This message posted from

The sched provider defines the stable "lgrp" variable that is the lgroup of the current CPU. This is mostly interesting when we can compare it with the actual thread home lgroup, so I''d like to extend the lwpsinfo_t structure with the new pr_lgrp field which will be implemented using translator. This will match the addition of the pr_lgrp field to the proc(4) lwpsinfo_t

Hi there, I''ve been using OpenSolaris for three months now, and I''ve started to get interested about to get my hands dirty with DTrace. Since I have an strong GNOME background, I would like to use it to help GNOME developers to find performance problems. Federico Mena Quintero, one of the Novell GNOME guys is one of the people that are working on GNOME performance stuff. He

G''Day Folks, I''ve found another use of dtrace, this makes your console keyboard sound like a typewriter. http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/typewriter-0.70.tar.gz I''ve only tested it on an UltraSPARC 5 and a Pentium laptop so far, more to follow. Ok, sorry, not actually a practical use of DTrace. :) Enjoy! Brendan [Sydney, Australia]

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

How do I find out why df -k is taking soo long to respond only sometimes? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Hi, I am tracking down a problem and would like to know how I can follow a forked process with my dtrace script, or how I can trace a dynamic library. Here is the problem. I am tracing dtlogin, and specifically I am trying to determine what error libpkcs11`<routine> is returning. It turns out dtlogin forks a lot of processes, and I believe the second forked process is the one that winds

A complex data structure stored in the shared-memory. Couple of processes attach to the shared-memory... Some of them spawn child procs... Two processes have change notification mechanism encoded... Basically the producer timestamps and the consumer compares the timestamp against it''s snapshot, if they differ then does use a semaphore to lock and gather critical data and replaces the

Hi all, I have questions about something I observed just now: 1) on AMD64, S10u1: # dtrace -n ''fbt::copystr:entry{printf ("%p\n", args[0]);}'' -c /bin/pwd dtrace: invalid probe specifier fbt::copystr:entry{printf ("%p\n", args[0]);}: in action list: index 0 is out of range for fbt::copystr:entry args[ ] but # dtrace -n ''fbt::copystr:entry{printf

Hiya, I''m trying to track down some throughput latency that our customer seems to be attributing to our product, I can''t see what he''s talking about, but I want to try and get some deeper granularity than I might get with something like smokeping, and maybe even see if its down to something tunable on our end. I''ve been looking for some examples on how

[1] Predicates in one-liners I would like to list the probe modules in my executable and then dynamically create a dscript to trace execution of those modules alone (by excluding the 3rd party and system libraries). I tried the below script without success. The conditional given in the predicate is not taking effect. Why is this so ? $ dtrace -ln ''pid$target:::

Hi, Can I use DTrace to determine memory status? 1.Total Physical Memory, Used Memory. 2.Total Swap Space and Used Swap Space. I did find few DTrace scripts but had too much in them and I am unable to chop off unwanted lines of code due to lack of knowledge. It will be very helpful if some one can share the piece of code that serves my purpose as mentioned above. Regards, Ramesh. Ramesh

Hi all, can anyone point me to a document that descirbes how to trace into an OS crash under Solaris 10? My hope is to get target-oriented description to figure out the system call and the process/thread that lead to the crash. Regards, Andreas

Hola, I am trying to isolate the memory leak I suspect in a mailman installation ? I found: http://blogs.sun.com/sanjeevb/date/200506 It gives an error: god at irt-smtp-02:~ 9:21am 65 # ./memleak.d 10312 dtrace: failed to compile script ./memleak.d: line 3: probe description pid10312:libc.so.1:malloc:entry does not match any probes I am on SunOS 5.10 Generic_127112-07 i86pc i386 i86pc Are

Is there any way to get printf type functionality inside the kernel from dtrace probes. Basically I want to dump progress through flow in my device driver. Something like: DTRACE_PRINTF("Inside chip reset, mailboxes %x %x %x %x %x %x %x %x", mb1, mb2, .....); ... ... DTRACE_PRINTF("reset failed: reason %s", failure_reasons[err]); I may have several such probes and they may

I''m a newbie as dtrace, but couldn''t find an answer to this by searching : For example, I have function "lsearch" which is called in many different places. It''s also called by "composemessage". I have been able to successfully create a script which show the return values of "lsearch". Now what I would like to do, is for it to only show the