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Hi, I have mentioned before that we have added some sdt dtrace probes in SAX, our APL interpreter. Encouraged by Angelo and Jignesh, I have created a small document (5 pages) describing our experience with it, together with some problems we have encountered and some scripts we use for pretty-printing dtrace outputs. The said document can be found at

Howdy, I installed Nevada build 49 in a parallels VM on my intel mac mini, and when I run the following DTrace script: $ cat follow.d #pragma option D flowindent; pid$target:::entry, pid$target:::return {} $ cat format.cmds disk 0 exit $ dtrace -s follow.d -o follow.out -c "/usr/sbin/format -f format.cmds" dtrace: script ''follow.d'' matched 13641 probes The system

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''m using the PID provider to trace a 32-bit app, prtdiag. I''m trying to print the value of "propname" (arg1) in the following func: int picl_get_propval_by_name(picl_nodehdl_t nodeh, const char *propname, void *valbuf, size_t nbytes) ... i''ve tried many versions, but this is a representative one: 53 this string propname; 54 55

Howdy, I am attempting to isolate the location of a memory leak in a 4GL program, and have hit a bit of a snag. When I LD_PRELOAD libumem and run the application server, "::findleaks -fdv" reports numerous leaks: CACHE LEAKED BUFCTL CALLER 0000000100b49068 15 0000000100ef2d50 fdcon+0x6c4 0000000100b50028 1 0000000100b72ac0 fdcon+0x6c4 0000000100b49068

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

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

Hello, I''m a newby to dtrace and have just installed the dtrace toolkit v0.92 on a core soalris 10 1/06 installation on SUN v40z. I have tried the following commands: iotop iosnoop but I get the message dtrace: invalid probe specifier and a lot of code. At the end it says: : in action list: failed to resolve uid: Unknown variable name Could it be, that there are some

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

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

Dtrace does work on some workstation, such as as follows, ----------------------------------------------------------- bash-3.00# dtrace -s ./mem.d `pgrep test` dtrace: script ''./mem.d'' matched 5 probes ^C bash-3.00# uname -a SunOS ftp 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 bash-3.00# dtrace -V dtrace: Sun D 1.1

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 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, 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

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, There''s a dead thread about this back at http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5075157, but it would be really nice to have support for if/else control flow in actions. Reasons: 1. The ternary operator ?: is already there (though it doesn''t let you do anything with side effects) 2. The user can already write arbitrary and expensive non-cacheable predicates if

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

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

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