Views on software from Bryan Cantrill's deck chair The Observation Deck

Tuesday Dec 13, 2005

There are two ways to get DTrace for another operating system: you can try porting DTrace to the other system, or you can -- as Adam Leventhal describes -- use the new BrandZ framework to get that other system running under Solaris. Adam describes applying DTrace to a Linux binary -- top -- and using DTrace to find a (pretty serious) Linux-specific performance problem. Pretty eff'in cool...