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* Sun DTrace equivalent for Linux?
@ 2004-09-03 12:59 Jean-Eric Cuendet
  2004-09-03 15:18 ` Robert Milkowski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jean-Eric Cuendet @ 2004-09-03 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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




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* Re: Sun DTrace equivalent for Linux?
  2004-09-03 12:59 Sun DTrace equivalent for Linux? Jean-Eric Cuendet
@ 2004-09-03 15:18 ` Robert Milkowski
  2004-09-03 16:47   ` Tom Zanussi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Robert Milkowski @ 2004-09-03 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jean-Eric Cuendet; +Cc: linux-kernel

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, ...)


-- 
 						Robert Milkowski
 						milek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl


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* Re: Sun DTrace equivalent for Linux?
  2004-09-03 15:18 ` Robert Milkowski
@ 2004-09-03 16:47   ` Tom Zanussi
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Zanussi @ 2004-09-03 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Milkowski; +Cc: Jean-Eric Cuendet, linux-kernel, zanussi

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

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