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I am teaching a DTrace class and a student noticed that 2 iosnoop scripts run in two different windows were producing different results. I was not able to answer why this is. Can anyone explain this. Here are the reults from the two windows: # io.d ... sched 0 <none> 1024 dad1 W 0.156 bash 1998

hello anyone faced this error before? dtrace: processing aborted: Abort due to systemic unresponsiveness I used iosnoop -evD > iosnoop.log thanks. __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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

Opening folders containing 10K files totaling 20GB is slow (takes 1.5 - 2.0 minutes) in FreeBSD 9.2 with Samba 4.1.11 on a system with 32GB RAM and a newer Xeon processor. Server is a standalone server that I'm using for testing. I am using nfsv4 acls. I used the procsystime dtrace script from here: http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/procsystime with the following syntax: procsystime -n smbd

I have been using iosoop script (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/scripts/) written by Brendan Gregg to look at the IO operations of my application. When I was running my test-program on a UFS filesystem I could see both read and write operations like: UID PID D BLOCK SIZE COMM PATHNAME 203803 4436 R 6016592 16384 diskio <none> 203803 4436 W 3448432

G''Day Folks, Well, I had a weekend home in Sydney while inbetween flights and have knocked out a few programs. (I''ve been programming for 23 hours straight, so if there is something really dumb in one my scripts then please excuse me :) # socketsnoop.d UID PID DIR SIZE CMD 0 19886 W 64 ssh mars 0 19886 R 80 ssh mars 0 19915 W 0

Does anyone out there have any thoughts on the type of load common DTrace scripts would cause on a system if run 24x7? I know "common DTrace scripts" and their underlining probe calls a vague statement. So for the lack of a common and establish set of scripts in the OS, I''ll use the most popular right for my question...the DTraceToolkit from Brendan Gregg. Which by the

G''Day Folks, Well, this one was my white whale. I now have a demonstration program that uses Perl, Kstat, /proc/*/usage, /proc/*/psinfo, and DTrace. The program itself is more of a prototype, I want to get serious about it and rewrite it in C. It currently has output like, # prustat -t5 -snet 10 PID %CPU %Mem %Disk %Net COMM 90 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00

G''Day Folks, I''ve finally typed up my classic DTrace demo, which I use to introduce people to DTrace (I delivered this at SOSUG#1), http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/dtracevstruss.html Here I create a fault and show the difficulty in analysing it using previous tools. Then I compare the impact of analysing the problem using both DTrace and truss. DTrace wins (a lot!).

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]

I am looking for Dtrace scripts that can be used to collect data during performance tests. I am especially interested in IO but CPU, memory, threads, etc are needed as well. Thanks, Dave

Unless I am missing something I cannot find a way to do a condtional check and handle it when a dtrace script is written with macros $1, $2 being passed to it, etc... In other words I have a dtrace script that can have parameters passed to it. Lets say $1 and $2 for example. I am trying to verity that there is or is not a value for $1 or $2 and adjust accordingly. I am finding that if use macros

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

G''Day Folks, While I have a few minutes online (which is rare at the moment - travel), let me post about a couple of new scripts. I''ve just uploaded them to http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html. They are to profile user-level functions and libaries; and kernel-level functions and modules. They sample, rather than trace (which can be both good and bad). Here is hotuser

Dear dtrace Experts, I have seen some dtrace utilities like opensnoop and execsnoop etc. My interest is to write a simple script that can snoop the files which uses the 3 syscalls like open,create,unlink. I have gone through dtrace oneliners that can do the same : dtrace -n ''syscall::open*:entry { printf("%s %s",execname,copyinstr(arg0));}'' dtrace -n

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 sent this to Brendan but never got a response. Maybe someone else can help? ----- Hi Brendan. I''m trying to debug a problem where I need to snoop the network traffic over a punchin connection, where snoop doesn''t work. I found your tcpsnoop dtrace tool, which seemed like it might be able to do what I need. Unfortunately, it doesn''t seem to have an option to dump

(Apologies to anyone who follows me on Twitter and therefore will have seen this multiple times already.) Joyent will be offering training in DTrace: Core Features and Performance Analysis trainer: Brendan Gregg <http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/> (San Francisco, Sept 6-7), Max Bruning <http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Max+Bruning> (Geneva, Sept 13-14) This course introduces

DTrace folks, I''m pleased to introduce a potential new DTrace-sponsored project: the Erlang DTrace provider. To be good OpenSolaris citizens, we want to put the formation of this officially sponsored project to a vote -- as outlined in the OpenSolaris Constitution -- so here are the details for the new Project, as prepared by the Project Team: Name : Erlang DTrace Integration

G''Day Folks, I''ve rewritten execsnoop, opensnoop and shellsnoop so that they are wrapped in the Bourne shell to provide command line options (they have all lost their ".d" extensions, but the old versions are still online). They are rather more meaningful tools now. (Eg, I can run shellsnoop with "-qp PID" with the PID of a shell, and see only the characters