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I have a clause that look like this: syscall::write:entry /execname == "ntpd" && self->recspec/ { speculate(self->recspec); printf(" fd=%d buf=%d\n%s",arg0,arg2, stringof(copyin(arg1,arg2-1))); } The ntpd program always write a \n trminated string in this context, so I used the "arg2-1" to drop the \n. This works

I am trying to use dtrace to trace all sscanf calls. I am able to use pid provider for this. But my application forks off children at times to handle requests. Is there a way I can stop the child process immediately after it is started so that I can attach a pid provider to that and trace the scanf calls in it? I have tried using the "create" probe but that did not help.

I have been doing some profiling using the profile provider. I have a command that runs more slowly on the T1000 than it does on prior systems and I am trying to find out why. Using the profile provider at 1000 hz, and aggregating on the ustack output, I find that the same function appears at the top of the stack on both platforms, but on each there are specific instruction locations within

Hi all, I am installing a zone onto two different V445s running S10U4 and the zones are taking hours to install (about 1000 packages), that is, the problem is identical on both systems. A bit of trussing and dtracing has shown that the pkginstalls being run by the zoneadm install are making door_call calls to nscd that are taking very long, so far observed to be 5 to 40 seconds, but always in

i''m using the following probe to calculate how many bytes are being written by tcp write calls, by process and total: fbt:ip:tcp_output:entry { this->tcpout_size = msgdsize(args[1]); @tcpout_size[execname] = sum(this->tcpout_size); @tcpout_size["TOTAL_TCP_OUT"] = sum(this->tcpout_size); } I run this probe for N seconds. I suppose that if i get the

I try to track down an error that causes that Astcc just reports the time, but not the costs. I could narrow the problem down into this sub routine: sub calccost() { my ($adjconn, $adjcost, $answeredtime, $increment) = @_; eval { my $adjtime = int(($answeredtime + $increment - 1) / $increment) * $increment }; my $cost; print STDERR "Adjusted time is $adjtime, cost is $adjcost with

Hi Dean, I haven't looked very closely at XRay so far, but I'm wondering if making CTF (common trace format, e.g. see http://diamon.org/ctf/) the default format for XRay traces would be useful? It seems it'd be nice to be able to reuse some of the tools that already exist for CTF, such as a graphical viewer (http://tracecompass.org/) or a converter library

I have a script where I can freely reference struct nameidata*, struct vnode*, etc. on Snow Leopard. How does DTrace know about these data types? I understand things like #pragma D depends_on library darwin.d where darwin.d has typedefs. I can''t find definitions of nameidata and vnode in any D scripts, though. How does it work? Thanks, Joel --- firefox for android!

Hello everybody! How do people generate the Compact Type Format (CTF) section? Do you have a special parser or employ gcc debug information? Is there any open utility to do this job? Best regards, Yaroslav

Hi llvm-dev, Recently, we've committed the beginnings of the llvm-xray [0] tool which allows for conveniently working with both XRay-instrumented libraries as well as XRay trace/log files. In the course of the review for the conversion tool [1] which turns a binary/raw XRay log file into YAML for human consumption purposes, a question arose as to how we intend to allow users to develop tools

This is a belated heads up to let you know that I have merged DTrace to the releng7 branch in the nick of time before the feature freeze for 7.1. Those astute mailing list readers will note that the commit message appears to have gone missing. Well, either the dog ate it or subversion decided that it was for certain eyes only (and not yours, or mine). I have added a note to src/UPDATING

Hi all, I am having an issue with some older CentOS 5.3 servers. Every time the server boots, it gives the error "Cannot access the hardware clock by any known method", and then promptly sets the time 5 hours behind the hardware clock, down to the second. After the system is up. "hwclock" works fine. hwclock --debug does not show any error at all. The hardware clock is

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 01:05:58PM -0600, g wrote: > so much for all that. > > i just thought it was working. :-( > > only way i can get system clock to show correct CST is to set bios > clock to CST. I suggest reading the man page for 'hwclock'. Namely, the --utc option. If you don't tell your system that the BIOS is stored as UTC, then it will assume it's

I want to go a lot deeper with my tracing of MySQL and to do so I want to look into MySQL Thread Descriptors (class THD). Inside is a great bulk of information utilized by a great many of the core functions within MySQL... I really want to get in there. So far I''ve had no luck though. It''s a C++ class, and I''m afraid that I''m approaching it like a C struct,

Hi all, OK, so this at first looked like a clear cut "Don''t do it, or at worst handle the results" issue my customer has come to me with, but the more we discuss it, the more it looks like we should have better ways of dealing with this issue. > We have user defined dtrace probe points in the application which use > as parameter 64 bit values: > > provider adv {

Hi. I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc All of those machines in question take their time via NTP from the same local server, and that server gets its time from a ntp pool. Now I had to reboot a couple of them two days ago and to my surprise all had problems with the time upon booting. Here are the important files: [root at XXXXXX ~]

Hello list, I recently had a user whose mailbox had gone out of sync. Webmail and client inbox totals had become vastly different and response times had become unacceptable. A doveadm force-resync fixed the problem nicely. This will no doubt happen again as we grow the service and I would like to have some type of indication at the server level so I can run a resync on a per-user basis as

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?

My leaky memory says we moved entry-point into some form of debug record in the standard libraries, circa Solaris 8/9. Before that, my group maintained text files that listed all the entry-points and their parameters for libraries like libc.so, so that we could print out parameter values in apptrace(8). There''s a (small) chance the records are complete enough that dtrace could use the

I have a sunw2100z (dual AMD) 2GB memory, I refresh installed nvx_35 on scsi disk (on board controller), then I enabled anon tracing fbt::xxx_attach:entry { self->trace = 1; } fbt::: /self->trace/ {} fbt::xxx_attach:return { self->trace = 0; } xxx_attach is HBA driver''s attach entry point. #dtrace -AFs xxx.d # reboot then reboot gives enabling probe 0..... WARNING: