From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265487AbUH2Few (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266561AbUH2Few (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:34:52 -0400 Received: from smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.227]:2686 "HELO smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265487AbUH2Far convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:30:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:30:18 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Tomasz =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=B3oczko?= Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, milek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl, usenet-20040502@usenet.frodoid.org, miles.lane@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Message-Id: <20040828223018.53ec62e2.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: <200408191822.48297.miles.lane@comcast.net> <87hdqyogp4.fsf@killer.ninja.frodoid.org> <1093174557.24319.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1093354658.2810.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: DaveM Loft Enterprises X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 02:14:03 +0200 (CEST) Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > If fact Solaris works quite well on usual desktop size computer. Check out the Solaris driver selection on x86 these days, it still stinks. It is unlikely they'll ever have the coverage Linux does any time soon. Frankly, if the only specific technical feature Sun has to brag about in Solaris 10 is DTrace, that's pretty sad. Even more so, most of the bugs I see being fixed in Solaris kernel patches are performance regressions against Linux. This, given how things were 6 or 7 years ago and the things the Solaris folks used to flame us for, I find particularly amusing.