Dtrace: kool-aid worth drinking

So, a few days ago I installed an experimental Solaris kernel build, and my mouse stopped working. In the old days, before dtrace, this would have meant digging around in kernel source, building experimental modules and running the kernel debugger. This time, though, I wrote a few lines of "D" code, kicked-off dtrace and a few minutes later I'd located exactly where the error was occurring. It just took another couple of minutes to check to see if the source file had been recently modified - and I found the bug had just been fixed the day before, I just needed to grab the updated source. Start to finish, it took under 30 minutes to resolve this issue. dtrace is an *amazing* tool.

Posted by danasblog [General] ( May 10, 2005 11:05 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]