Solaris' Dtrace in Detail

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 9, 2004 @12:04AM from the d-proof-is-in-d-pudding dept.

paulkoan writes "The Register has a further details about the new Dtrace systems utility bundled with Solaris 10, along with pictures of the authors, and user testimonials. It also highlights Suns vague assurances that this (if it lives up to the hype) amazing utility may or may not end up in the public domain."

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assurance of what ??? by mirko · 2004-07-09 00:07 · Score: 3, Funny

It also highlights Suns vague assurances that this amazing utility may or may not end up in the public domain."

so, we are assured of a and !a ???

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1. Re:assurance of what ??? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-09 00:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  so, we are assured of a and !a ???
  No, we're assured of a or !a.
  Although knowing Sun, they're probably trying for a and !a and wondering why it won't work...
2. Re:assurance of what ??? by 4lex · 2004-07-09 00:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It also highlights Suns vague assurances that this amazing utility may or may not end up in the public domain." so, we are assured of a and !a ???
  
  No, we are _vaguely_ assured of a *or* !a. I thought Sun made it clear enough! ;)
  
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indeed! by rylin · 2004-07-09 00:10 · Score: 3, Funny

Bingo!
In fact, you can bet your life that it will or won't show up in public domain.
Now this is what I call a nice and reputable company! At least they keep what they promise!
Huh? Quantum leap? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-09 00:17 · Score: 1, Funny

"DTrace is a quantum leap over previous tools"

Doesn't that mean it is a very small, randomly occuring change? Silly marketing speak.
1. Re:Huh? Quantum leap? by sarabob · 2004-07-09 00:26 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No, he means that it's a relatively large change with no intermediate positions.
  
  "very small" is only your perception of the size of change. Moving between a base state and an excited state is a pretty big thing for an atom.
2. Re:Huh? Quantum leap? by AliasTheRoot · 2004-07-09 00:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If it doesn't make me say "Oh boy..." in a resigned kind of way it is no Quantum leap.
3. Re:Huh? Quantum leap? by malkavian · 2004-07-09 00:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  As opposed to humans, who usually exhibit more of their base states when excited.
Dtrace slashdot by hhg · 2004-07-09 00:19 · Score: 3, Funny

I bet someone has to DTrace his slashdotted server real soon now..
Re:Lots of users == good. by mollymoo · 2004-07-09 00:25 · Score: 4, Funny

If I can't use it, then I'll never learn about how good it is.

So if some software isn't in the Gentoo portage tree you won't run it on your Solaris boxes at work?
This is proprietary software for a version of Solaris which isn't even out yet.
Remind me not to employ you as a Solaris sysadmin. Hell, remind me not to employ you to make the tea - we might have different cups at work and you wouldn't know what to do with them.

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a || !a = 1 by pjt33 · 2004-07-09 00:27 · Score: 2, Funny

No, we're vaguely assured that [i]true[/i].
Re:It's about time (;-)) by int19 · 2004-07-09 00:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, I got them memo, and I've already taken care of it ... so ... it's not really a problem anymore.

;-)
Sun reminds me of H2G2 philosophers by arvindn · 2004-07-09 00:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Sun's vacillation about open source reminds me of the philosophers in the Hitchhiker's guide.

``But who the devil are you?'' exclaimed an outraged Fook.

``We,'' said Majikthise, ``are Philosophers.''

``Though we may not be,'' said Vroomfondel waving a warning finger at the programmers.

``Yes we are,'' insisted Majikthise. ``We are quite definitely here as representatives of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons, and we want this machine off, and we want it off now!''

``What's the problem?'' said Lunkwill.

``I'll tell you what the problem is mate,'' said Majikthise, ``demarcation, that's the problem!''

``We demand,'' yelled Vroomfondel, ``that demarcation may or may not be the problem!''

``You just let the machines get on with the adding up,'' warned Majikthise, ``and we'll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position you do mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? I mean what's the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?''

``That's right!'' shouted Vroomfondel, ``we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!''
1. Re:Sun reminds me of H2G2 philosophers by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-09 02:34 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Slashdot rule #321: HHGTTG, Simpsons, etc. quotes don't actually have to make sense or have context in the current discussion.
Re:terrrible article by mpcooke3 · 2004-07-09 00:46 · Score: 1, Funny

At least with thereg first you get the poor reporting first hand :)
Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-09 00:47 · Score: 3, Funny

Give system catchy name, vaguely reminiscent of Eminem's rap group

I'm sure they did this to appeal to the disproportionately-large numbers of African-Americans in the field of computer science.
Re:It's about time (;-)) by little_fluffy_clouds · 2004-07-09 00:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah. It's just we are putting new coversheets on the TPS reports before they go out, so if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that would be great.

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Re:It's about time (;-)) by sql*kitten · 2004-07-09 00:56 · Score: 4, Funny

going to write a new TPS/response-time monitor using it.

Did you get the memo about the cover sheet?
Re:terrrible article by the+chao+goes+mu · 2004-07-09 01:16 · Score: 2, Funny

At least it doesn't say Dtrace was a scalable,, three-tier, object-oriented, java-driven solution engine...

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Re:terrrible article by Hubert_Shrump · 2004-07-09 01:35 · Score: 2, Funny

you're thinking of longhorn.

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Favorite quote by kill-hup · 2004-07-09 01:35 · Score: 5, Funny

DTrace's inventors say admins need "to have a good relationship with their brains" to use the software best.
I'll have to start using that in my conversations about lusers. "I wouldn't call him stupid; let's just say he doesn't have a good relationship with his brain..." :)

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Sounds very cool... by teamhasnoi · 2004-07-09 02:30 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder if they have attempted to run Dtrace on Dtrace? Wouldn't that allow you to make Dtrace infinitely fast? Perhaps become its own energy source?
I know I would pay big dollars, say like $28, for a box that ran infinitely fast.
This could be the diet pill for software bloat that we've all been looking for.
Re:Exists already in Linux kernel by 110010001000 · 2004-07-09 03:05 · Score: 1, Funny

"OProfile can't tell you exactly why your system call is returning EINVAL. OProfile can't tell you why your application is causing cross-calls. OProfile can't tell you what processes are writing to what files, in real time. OProfile can't debug race conditions."

Well then what are you posting on Slashdot for??? Get back to work! :-) Just kidding.