Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Folks, On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Bryan Cantrill wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:33:17PM -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 patc

Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Colin Burgess
Well I see that Brendan did reply to the OSNews link to this. He basically shot them down at hardcoding the instrumentation - as he should have! :-) Shame on Intel - they should know better! Colin Bryan Cantrill wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:33:17PM -0500, Colin Burgess wrote: > I see I

Re: [dtrace-discuss] How to dereference a pointer to a pointer

2008-01-18 Thread Janice Chang
Hello. I would like to ask for some help on a dtrace script I am writing. The following set of dtrace functions seems not to workI see output for the entry function as expected, but I do not see a corresponding return value being returned. Actually the return function was more complicate

Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
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? ;-) > >

Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:33:17PM -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? ;

Re: [dtrace-discuss] [nfs-discuss] provider proposal: NFS v3

2008-01-18 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:06:33AM -0800, eric kustarz wrote: > >>Any plans for the ancillary protocols of NFSv3 (NLM, MOUNT, stat, > >>acl)? This would allow us to have a true "nfsv3_snoop.d". > > > >No immediate plans. What would be needed? > > Same thing you did for NFSv4 and are doing for NFS

Re: [dtrace-discuss] [nfs-discuss] provider proposal: NFS v3

2008-01-18 Thread eric kustarz
On Jan 17, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Adam Leventhal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:17:25PM -0800, eric kustarz wrote: >> This is for just the NFSv3 server (as opposed to the client and >> server), right? > > Just the server. We have designs for client providers, but we > (obviously) > don't need t

Re: [dtrace-discuss] How to dereference a pointer to a pointer

2008-01-18 Thread Janice Chang
Ok--I may have found the problem (easy)--I had assumed self->path was always non-NULL. Thanks anyway!! Janice Janice Chang wrote: > Hello. I would like to ask for some help on a dtrace script I am writing. > > The following set of dtrace functions seems not to workI see output > for the e

[dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Colin Burgess
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/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-18 Thread Colin Burgess
LOL - you rock, Brendan. You know, at the VERY least they could have used systemtap, I guess. Colin Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: G'Day Folks, On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Bryan Cantrill wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:33:17PM -0500, Colin Burgess wrote: > > I