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Solaris' Dtrace in Detail

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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  1. The 47% improvement in 5 minutes bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    was comical. I guess no one at Sun or their customers have ever used a profiling tool before. Even Sun's crappy Forte/SunONE/whatever-they-call-it-today 'collect' profiler can do this in five minutes.

  2. Re:terrrible article by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was waiting for the paragraph where it described DTrace's ability to cook breakfast, make coffee, and suck cock all at the same time.

    --
    Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
  3. Re:just to save you all some trouble by Florian+Weimer · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, linux does not already do this.

    Show me a tool that can link high disk I/O load to the processes that cause it, on a vanilla Linux kernel.

  4. Re:Lots of users == good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Christ you Gentoy fanboys are morons arn't you? Fuck off back to compiling Glibc and prentending you're leet, fuckstick.

  5. Re:It's about time (;-)) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sun Microsystems will be gone in a few years.

  6. Re:terrrible article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The mods have lost their minds.

    Last time I corrected my own typo, I was modded "troll", now correcting my own post is "offtopic"?

    Is this some sort of response to the grammar nazis? Corrections are now verboten?

    Posting AC to prevent yet another strange mod.

    The Chao Goes Mu.