Re: [dtrace-discuss] tracing transient processes

2009-12-04 Thread Rafael Vanoni
Rafael Vanoni wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Kevin Fitch wrote: I have a situation that I would like to debug with dtrace, but I am not sure how. I have a process that kicks off, runs for a few seconds (perhaps milliseconds) then goes away. And this happens very frequently, think old

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tracing transient processes

2009-12-04 Thread Rafael Vanoni
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Kevin Fitch wrote: I have a situation that I would like to debug with dtrace, but I am not sure how. I have a process that kicks off, runs for a few seconds (perhaps milliseconds) then goes away. And this happens very frequently, think old-school CGI based web a

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tracing transient processes

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Schow
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:07:03PM -0500, Kevin Fitch wrote: > I have a situation that I would like to debug with dtrace, but I am not sure > how. > > I have a process that kicks off, runs for a few seconds (perhaps > milliseconds) then goes away. And this happens very frequently, think > old-scho

Re: [dtrace-discuss] newbie question on dtrace of user functions

2009-12-04 Thread Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz
I see that kdfitch asked as similar question and that I did not ask this in a good way. I will try to use teh answer that he received. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org

[dtrace-discuss] newbie question on dtrace of user functions

2009-12-04 Thread Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz
I am trying to find out information about how to use dtrace for a way of tracing user function calls. My question appears to be trivial, but I am having difficulty trying to find where to get an answer. I want to do a relatively trivial trace that will follow execution into a set of *user* functio