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...
One day I was looking through a tar file and looking for an executable. When I use ls, I can do this at a glance by just looking for green filenames, as I always have my ls configured to show executable files in green. It...
I pretty much followed these instructions, but one extra step was required. The problem that I was having was that the system kept running out of file descriptors and becoming unusable. After a little digging around with fstat...
I set up an OpenIndiana vm in VMware Fusion (see earlier post) but while setting it up, I accidentally selected "Other" for the guest OS type instead of "Solaris". As a result, later on when I wanted to install VMware Tools, it...
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!...
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...