Learning Solaris 10 Check out the Zones F.A.Q. !

Good article from http://developers.sun.com that introduce and show how to best use DTrace during the development phase.

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Good link to keep.

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T: DTrace

Good article to enter into DTrace even if you don’t really want to ( not enough time, energy, background, courage,…). Just enter by the DTrace toolkit door.

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T: DTrace, OpenSolaris, Solaris 10

Very interesting 5 pages read in ACM queue. History, design principles and future work for DTrace.

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A very nice case study (made by Brendan Gregg) to show how and why DTrace is less intrusive than Truss ( in addition of being capable of much more). Very easy to read but nonetheless quite interesting answer to a typical performance problem : “who is using this CPU so much???”.

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T : DTrace

A blog entry by Bryan Cantrill that describes some design decisions that have been taken by the DTrace team. A very good read that helps building confidence in using DTrace on production machines.

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T : DTrace

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Adam Leventhal recently made the slides he is using to present DTrace available for everyone. He’s right, these would be useful for people starting to learn DTrace. Contains examples & exercises.

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It was only a matter of time before we would see a kind of wrapper script around a bunch of well-designed DTrace script. Good news is that it comes from somebody who knows how to provide valuable information in an efficient way. He is an instructor so if you want to learn DTrace, it is a perfect start!

Thanks Mr Brendan Gregg for this DTrace toolkit.

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Nice little program that makes use of DTrace without requiring real DTrace knowledge.

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