Quoting "Todd Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1198
Maybe it's just because I (admittedly) don't know dtrace that well yet, but I find that I still get far more, and more helpful, info much faster via strace, ltrace and the human readability of /proc on linux then I do with dtrace on solaris or osx.
Sun keeps touting DTrace like the greatest thing since sliced bread (and their ZFS) but it just doesn't seem to be all that much better to me. Granted, compared to the info I tend to get from tools on solaris (truss is almost identical to strace but /proc on solaris sucks IMNSHO because it's not really human readable at all) DTrace is an improvement.
BTW, you should see how many long time solaris admins just love how easy info is to get from /proc in linux compared to solaris. The links for exe/cwd and the fd path alone for processes is so much nicer. No need to fire up lsof for something you can use ls for on linux.
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