Hi,
I read an article on DTrace on Solaris. It seems wonderful. Is it
overrated by Sun or really an excellent tool?
Is there an equivalent tool for Linux?
Thanks
-jec
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> Hi,
> I read an article on DTrace on Solaris. It seems wonderful. Is it overrated
> by Sun or really an excellent tool?
It's really wonderful tool.
The more you use it the more addicted to it you are :)
> Is there an equivalent tool for Linux?
Equivalent - no.
Something much more simple - yes (LTT, DProbes, ...)
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Robert Milkowski
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Robert Milkowski wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I read an article on DTrace on Solaris. It seems wonderful. Is it
>> overrated by Sun or really an excellent tool?
>
>
> It's really wonderful tool.
> The more you use it the more addicted to it you are :)
>
>> Is there an equivalent tool for Linux?
>
>
> Equivalent - no.
>
> Something much more simple - yes (LTT, DProbes, ...)
>
>
Though it was meant mainly to address the specific topic of that thread,
I recently posted a simple add-on to the LTT user tools that shows what
can be done with the existing Linux stuff e.g. LTT and kprobes:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109405724500237&w=2
It basically makes LTT more amenable to the type of ad-hoc
experimentation people seem to like about DTrace.
Tom