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...
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As an additional bonus, BrandZ also provides ZFS for Linux without any porting!

Posted by Alexander Kolbasov on December 13, 2005 at 07:40 PM PST #

That is pretty astounding! My small web hosting company has switched 100% to Solaris and the customers love it, but we do get the occasional Linux weenie :-) ... now I could potentially give them a Linux zone and the objection would disappear.

Posted by PatrickG on December 14, 2005 at 08:00 AM PST #

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