Re: dtrace on Solaris 9?

From: Scott Howard (scott_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: 12 Sep 2004 07:13:08 GMT

Beardy <beardy@beardy.net> wrote:
>
> Sun never did support it, and even said "*don't*" put this on Production
> systems. I could never see why not; especially as it was a completely
> interrogative tool. Maybe coz it is interpreted, and badly-constructed

SE is _not_ a "completely interrogative" tool - it also has the ability
to modify kernel structures which are normally only accessable via direct
manipulation of the kernel with tools like adb.

Some of the scripts included in the ANC* packages even make use of this -
such as the one(s) which enable priority paging on a machine on the fly.

As far as being supported by Sun, why would it be? It's a 3rd-party tool
written by someone who (to the best of my knowledge) has never work for
Sun.

  Scott