Thanks Jim for the exhaustive explanation. Regards,
Kaushal On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Stephen Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the knowledge Jim! > > Regards > -------------------------------------------- > On Fri, 2/3/17, jim mauro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [dtrace-discuss] Dtrace utility > To: "Kaushal Shriyan" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Dominic Kay" <[email protected]>, "Stephen Foster" < > [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Date: Friday, February 3, 2017, 8:57 AM > > Re: DTrace > on Linux. Short answer is no DTrace on Linux.If > you're running Oracle Linux, Oracle has a partial DTrace > implementation, but it's missing severalkey > providers and the providers that are there do not work > reliable. In a word, it's buggy and in > myopinion not usable.There's also > https://github.com/dtrace4linux/linux, > a DTrace port to Linux on GitHub, but I found that to > be generally buggy and unreliable as well, and I > do not think it is being actively developed and > debugged.** > Re: > Brendan's site. It's a wealth of information on > tools and utilities for diagnosing performance > problemson Linux. If you're looking to get > jump-started on Linux performance tools and utilities, sit > back, grab anespresso, and watch several of > Brendan's videos from various technical conferences and > grab the slidedecks on > SlideShare. > ** It is > not my intention to cast aspersions on Paul Fox or any of > the contributors to dtrace4linux. It'sa huge > amount of work, an extremely complex software framework and > as far as I know it's workthey did in their > spare time. I am simply conveying my experience from about a > year ago ofgrabbing the bits from GitHub, > building and installing DTrace on Linux, and trying to use > it. > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 1:49 > AM, Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:03 PM, > Dominic Kay <[email protected]> > wrote: > Kaushal > Go > here: http://www.brendangregg.com/ > cheers > /d > > Hi, > Thanks Dominic for sharing the link. > Is this website http://www.brendangregg.com/ > meant for finding out performance issues/bottlenecks on a > linux server? > Regards, > Kaushal > dtrace-discuss | Archives > > | Modify > Your Subscription > > > ------------------------------------------- dtrace-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184261/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184261/25769126-e243886f Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769126&id_secret=25769126-8d47a7b2 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
