Tag: DTrace

Making it easy to try DTrace4Linux

DTrace4Linux is an attempt (from UK developer Paul Fox, also known for his CRiSP editor) to bring the power of DTrace to Linux. It's a kernel module (No kernel recompilation required! Yay!) and userland tools. I did a bit of...

LinuxProgramming

DTrace for Linux

I wanted to draw attention to the excellent work that Paul Fox has been doing in porting DTrace to Linux. And he recently created a GitHub repo for it, so it's that much easier to contribute now. If you have Linux kernel...

General

Fix missing math.h in OpenIndiana

Was trying to build Python on OpenIndiana b151A (for the purpose of testing out a DTrace patch; see earlier post) and got: math.h: No such file or directory The fix: sudo pkg install header-math Thanks, swinful!...

General

Setting up OpenIndiana b151A

I'm in the process of installing OpenIndiana b151A in a VMware Fusion virtual machine. Main reason is that I've become interested in DTrace and DTrace comes from the world of Solaris. OS X has DTrace too, but I'm noticing that it...