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Advanced DTrace●●●●Assumption that the basics of DTraceare understood – or at least familiarYou need not have used DTrace toappreciate this presentation......but the more you have, the moreyou'll appreciate itIn no particular order, we will bedescribing some <strong>tips</strong>, some tricks andsome gotchas
DTrace Tips●●●Tips are pointers to facilities that are(for the most part) fully documentedBut despite (usually) being welldocumented,they might not be wellknown...This presentation will present thesefacilities, but won't serve as a tutorialfor them; see the documentation fordetails
Page 1: Advanced DTraceTips, Tricks and Got
Page 5 and 6: DTrace Gotchas●●●Like any sys
Page 7 and 8: Tip: Speculative tracing●●●
Page 9 and 10: Tip: clear and tick probes●●cle
Page 11 and 12: Tip: stop●●One may wish to stop
Page 13 and 14: Gotcha: stop gone haywire●●●B
Page 17 and 18: Gotcha: Too many pid probes●●
Page 20 and 21: Gotcha: Buffer drops●●●●The
Page 25 and 26: Trick: Tracking object lifetime●
Page 27 and 28: Tip: Using system●●Use the syst
Page 29 and 30: Trick: system(“dtrace”)●●
Page 31 and 32: Gotcha: Stripped user stacks●●
Page 33 and 34: Trick: Using stop and ustack●●
Page 35 and 36: Tip: Ring buffering and -c/-p●●
Page 37 and 38: Tip: Tuning the deadman●●If the
Page 39 and 40: Trick: Watchpoints via pid●●●
Page 41 and 42: Trick: Iterating over structures●
Page 43 and 44: Gotcha: Unsporting functions●●
Page 45 and 46: Trick: sizeof and profiling●●
Page 47 and 48: Gotcha: $target evaluation●●●
Page 49 and 50: Gotcha: Data model mismatch●●
Page 51 and 52: Tip: Sample with profile●●●Wh
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Gotcha: vtimestamp●●●●vtime
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Tip: Demo DTrace scripts●●●/u
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