[OpenIndiana-discuss] eBook Daily Deal - DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

[Dave Koelmeyer]

On  9/04/11 12:59 AM, Philip J. Robar wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Jesus Cea wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/11 13:16, Philip J. Robar wrote:
>>> DTrace is also available on Linux in a slightly lesser form. (It doesn't change the kernel's source code.)
>> References? Are you talking about the systemtap thing?
>
> I'm just repeated what was on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
>
> First I've ever heard of systemtap. It appears to be a competitor to DTrace. A web search finds amongst others: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparison which appears to have been updated as recently as late February.

There is a rather amusing (old) summary here, written by Bryan Cantrill:

http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/dtrace_knockoffs

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Dave Koelmeyer
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