DTrace Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD

Name: DTrace Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD
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ISBN: 9780132091510

ISBN-10: 0132091518

ISBN-13: 9780132091510

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, Chad Mynhier, Tariq Magdon-Ismail

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The first guide to DTrace: the breakthrough debugging tool for Mac OS X, Unix, Solaris, and OpenSolaris operating systems and applications Complete coverage: architecture, implementation, components, usage, and much more Covers integrating DTrace into open source code, and integrating probes into application software Includes full chapter of advanced tips and techniques For users of DTrace on all platforms Foreword by Bryan Cantril, creator of DTrace DTrace represents a revolution in debugging. Using it, administrators, developers, and service personnel can dynamically instrument operating systems and applications to quickly ask and answer virtually any question about how their operating…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 4/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1152
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors



Introduction



Introduction to DTrace


What Is DTrace?


Why Do You Need It?


Capabilities


Dynamic and Static Probes


DTrace Features


A First Look


Overview


Architecture


Summary



D Language


D Language Components


Probes


Variables


Aggregations


Actions


Options


Example Programs


Summary



Using DTrace



System View


Start at the Beginning


Observing CPUs


Observing Memory


Observing Disk and Network I/O


Summary



Disk I/O


Capabilities


Disk I/O Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Case Studies


Summary



File Systems


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Case Study


Summary



Network Lower-Level Protocols


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Common Mistakes


Summary



Application-Level Protocols


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Summary



Languages


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


C


C++


Java


JavaScript


Perl


PHP


Python


Ruby


Shell


Tcl


Summary



Applications


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Case Studies


Summary



Databases


Capabilities


Strategy


Providers


MySQL


PostgreSQL


Oracle


Summary



Additional User Topics



Security


Privileges, Detection, and Debugging


Scripts


Summary



Kernel


Capabilities


Strategy


Checklist


Providers


Scripts


Summary



Tools


The DTraceToolkit


Chime


DTrace GUI Plug-in for NetBeans and Sun Studio


DLight, Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2


Mac OS X Instruments


Analytics


Summary



Tips and Tricks



Known Workloads



Write Target Software



Use grep to Search for Probes



Frequency Count



Time Stamp Column, Postsort



Use Perl to Postprocess



Learn Syscalls



Timestamp vs. vtimestamp



Profile:::profile-997 and Profiling



Variable Scope and Use



Strlen() and strcmp()



Check Assumptions



Keep It Simple



Consider Performance Impact



Drops and dynvardrops



Tail-Call Optimization


Further Reading



DTrace Tunable Variables



D Language Reference



Provider Arguments Reference


Providers


Arguments



DTrace on FreeBSD


Enabling DTrace on FreeBSD 7.1 and 8.0


DTrace for FreeBSD: John Birrell



USDT Example


USDT Bourne Shell Provider


Case Study: Implementing a Bourne Shell Provider



DTrace Error Messages


Privileges


Drops


Aggregation Drops


Dynamic Variable Drops


Invalid Address


Maximum Program Size


Not Enough Space



DTrace Cheat Sheet


Synopsis


Finding Probes


Finding Probe Arguments


Probes


Vars


Actions


Switches


Pragmas


One-Liners


Bibliography


Suggested Reading


Vendor Manuals


Index