Making it easy to try DTrace4Linux

Posted on 2012-07-25 by Marc

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 hacking around with Vagrant and Puppet and VirtualBox to make it dead easy to try.

An OVA file for Ubuntu with DTrace4Linux kernel module already built and installed. Import the OVA into VirtualBox et al, boot it up, and try something like sudo dtrace -l
A .vmwarem vm that should be importable into VMware Player
Pull request with Vagrantfile — for Vagrant

Tweeted here.

DTrace for Linux

Posted on 2012-03-25 by Marc

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 knowledge, I’d encourage you to get involved!

Fix missing math.h in OpenIndiana

Posted on 2012-02-23 by Marc

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!

Setting up OpenIndiana b151A

Posted on 2012-02-22 by Marc

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 differs quite a bit from DTrace on Solaris, especially when it comes to developing with it — i.e.: instrumenting software with USDT probes.

Marc Abramowitz

Tag Archives: DTrace

Making it easy to try DTrace4Linux

DTrace for Linux

Fix missing math.h in OpenIndiana

Setting up OpenIndiana b151A