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
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