similar to: man pages for each providers ?

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

Hi, If you have a custom kernel (and therefore have duplicates of everything in /kernel in your custom kernel) and have noticed that when you try to use anonymous tracing, dtrace adds multiple copies of the forceload directives to /etc/system, e.g.: * vvvv Added by DTrace * * The following forceload directives were added by dtrace(1M) to allow for * tracing during boot. If these

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

OK, I''ve been fritzing around with something I noticed last night, thinking that I understood what was going on, but now it''s getting confusing again. A system that has been running for a couple of months had a hole in the probe ID list near the end in the middle of the fbt probes. And then a couple of syscall probes were stuck in the hole. It looked like this: ... 40311

I''d like to see if we can use DTrace to as the kernel implementation of the BSD systrace security policy system (http://www.systrace.org). I don''t really want to port systrace to Solaris because I think with DTrace we already have all the necessary in kernel hooks to do this. With systrace you express things like: "httpd can bind to port 80 but not any other port, it

I have just recently (physically) moved a system with 16 hard drives (for the array) and 1 OS drive; and in doing so, I needed to pull out the 16 drives so that it would be light enough for me to lift. When I plugged the drives back in, initially, it went into a panic-reboot loop. After doing some digging, I deleted the file /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. When I try to import the pool using the zpool

Hi, The systrace and rlimit sandboxes have been committed and will be in snapshots dated 20110623 and later. This diff adds support for pre-auth privsep sandboxing using the OS X sandbox_init(3) service. It's a bit disappointing that the OS X developers chose such as namespace-polluting header and function names "sandbox.h", "sandbox_init()", etc. It already forced me to

There is a Slashdot discussion today titled "Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace". Slashdot anonymous member has a comment "Even Sun''s Dtrace might be vulnerable." I don''t think it is. Comments? Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers http://www.watson.org/~robert/2007woot/2007usenixwoot-exploitingconcurrency.pdf Abstract

Hi, OpenSSH 5.9 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing on as many platforms and systems as possible. This release contains a couple of new features and changes and bug fixes. Testing of the new sandboxed privilege separation mode (see below) would be particularly appreciated. Snapshot releases for portable OpenSSH are available from http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/ The

I'm porting the most recent version of Neil Provos' systrace to FreeBSD 5.1. I'm sending him the diffs to integrate into his distribution. I'd also like to submit them to someone with FreeBSD for consideration, and hopefully inclusion as a port or whatever you prefer. Who could I send them to, or what would you prefer me to do with regard to FreeBSD? Thanks, Rich Murphey

Hi all, So I just took Sun''s dtrace class this week and one thing that piqued my interest was the instrumenting of a process''s instructions and how to find the original instructions. (I''m looking around at resources for learning SPARC assembly to help me when using mdb for analysis, though I vaguely remember pieces from a grad school compiler theory class about 10 years

Hi, I was going through the implementation of the fasttrap provider. I found that when displaced execution happens (ie., when the instruction traced is being executed out of the scratch space) if an asynchrnous signal comes we need to defer the delivery. Can somebody explain why this is necessary and how is it implemented? Thanks in advance Saravanan S -------------- next part -------------- An

Dtrace and Performance Teams, I have the following IO Performance Specific Questions (and I''m already savy with the lockstat and pre-dtrace utilities for performance analysis.. but in need of details regarding specifying IO bottlenecks @ the controller or IO bus..) : **Q.A*> Determining IO Saturation bottlenecks ( */.. beyond service times and kernel contention.. )/ I''m

I''m looking for a suggestion on a good way to hunt down the source of high context switching and mutex contentions... Is dtrace the way to go now, or should I stick with something like lockstat? Russ This is a 5 second interval for mpstat: CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 16 0 0 1115 1241 206 9095 912 2420 7393 0 12105 68 25

Hello together, since upgrading on samba 3.0.x (issue happens with all 3.0. release) the cpu-load on my samba PDC ist constantly near 100%. The cpu power ist consumed by all running smb-processes. Systrace shows me that the smb processes tried to access to /etc/passwd on a permanent basis. My question is: Why tries samba to access etc/passwd so often and produces this high cpu-load? Regards,

OpenSSH 5.9 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support of the project, especially those who contributed code or patches,

OpenSSH 5.9 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support of the project, especially those who contributed code or patches,

Author: bmc Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: 213bfe03af413cdf71c523fb076aaa65a6306a7e Log message: 6256581 System got a hang or a panic with dtrace+kmdb 6264573 unanchored dtrace_getpcstack is rather imprecise toward function end 6289517 dtrace doesn''t like fd_intr anymore 6291378 dtrace helpers can interfere with the use of kmdb 6295554 dtrace doesn''t report

Hi, I''m posting a question hoping someone will know the answer off hand thereby reducing my search time. :-) With USDT probes, the tracepoint is only installed by libdtrace itself, never by the drti ioctl. So whenever I run a program with an USDT probe, no tracepoint is installed. Only after I run the dtrace command the tracepoint is actually installed on the victim process. My question

I just had a quick play with gzip compression on a filesystem and the result was the machine grinding to a halt while copying some large (.wav) files to it from another filesystem in the same pool. The system became very unresponsive, taking several seconds to echo keystrokes. The box is a maxed out AMD QuadFX, so it should have plenty of grunt for this. Comments? Ian