On Jan 19, 2008 10:30 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:33 -0500, Colin Burgess wrote: > > I see Intel has released a new tool. Oh, it requires some patches to > > the kernel to record > > latency times. Good thing people don't mind patching their kernels, eh? > > > > So who can write the equivalent latencytop.d the fastest? ;-) > > > > http://www.latencytop.org/ > > What I find interesting about these projects that Intel > spawns for Linux (PowerTOP, LatencyTOP and couple of others) > is that regardless of internal implementation they are > very useful end user tools. Here at Sun we seem to be > missing interest in creating such things. Which is a bit of a > shame. They are ideal vehicles for disseminating DTrace > knowledge and exposing neophytes to the raw power of DTrace. > > To be fair Greg's DTrace toolkit helps in that respect, but > still it sets the bar pretty high for anybody who would > like to use it. > > It is easy to poke fun at LatencyTOP, but asking the right > question could sometimes be even more important than > being able to deliver the answer. > > Just my 2c. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > P.S. I was able to extend the battery time of my Linux laptop > 1.5x using PowerTOP. Can the same thing be done with DTrace? > Perhaps it can, but I don't think I can code it up.
Solaris PowerTOP is almost done. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tesla/Work/Powertop/ -Aubrey Intel OpenSolaris Team _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org