Between the hours of 1:00 and 23:00 every 5 minutes it will run for 2 seconds.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri Mar 16 16:07:35 2007
Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] the use of Truss.

> I'm looking for some feed back on an operational issue.  We have some
> production management folks who want to run truss on tomcat once every
> five minutes on a production system.  Wondering if anyone might have any
> comments about this use of Truss?

Run "once"?  For how long?  How will it be disconnected?

Truss can be rather intrusive for inspection.  For every entry/exit to a
system call, it forces the OS to stop the process, wait for truss to do
its work, then restart the process.  This can (and has) had detrimental
effects on production systems.  Now if your process doesn't do much, and
the load on the application is low, you can increase the latency and
probably no one will notice.  But if you're already bogged down, then
its likely to be very noticable.

Dtrace is a much better option.  It could be worth it to build a similar
system on Solaris 10 even if production isn't there just to try to see
what's happening.

See also:
http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/DTrace/dtracevstruss.html

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Darren Dunham                                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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