Jon Haslam's Weblog

In Solaris 10 build 63 there is a new DTrace provider called the mib provider. It allows us to drill down and look into aspects of the networking subsystems. For example, how cool and simple is the following script which tells you which processes are generating what volume of tcp traffic:

#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s

mib:::tcpOutDataBytes
{
        @[execname] = sum(args[0]);
}

# ./mib.d
dtrace: script './mib.d' matched 3 probes
^C

  xterm                                                          9696
  java                                                          11660
  sshd                                                         197720

I love it! All this and much, much, much more in the August edition of Software Express for Solaris