Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-21 Thread Colin Burgess
I don't think anyone disagrees that measuring latency is a bad idea. Note Brendan's comments in http://osnews.com/permalink?296801 http://osnews.com/permalink?296801 Encouraging customers to look at latencies for performance analysis is really important. ... If this tool does get customers to

Re: [dtrace-discuss] LatencyTop

2008-01-21 Thread Aubrey Li
On Jan 19, 2008 9:04 AM, Colin Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 I'm not a member of the linux

[dtrace-discuss] DTrace, Solaris 9, JVM

2008-01-21 Thread Z W
Hi Gurus Quick question. I have JVM 1.5 running with Solaris 9. Can DTrace be used with such a configuration or is DTrace only for Solaris 10 ? Thanks ___ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace, Solaris 9, JVM

2008-01-21 Thread Rayson Ho
On Jan 21, 2008 2:58 PM, Z W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can DTrace be used with such a configuration or is DTrace only for Solaris 10 ? DTrace is only for Solaris 10. Time to upgrade ;-) Rayson Thanks ___ dtrace-discuss mailing list

[dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolve SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Fletcher Cocquyt
Hi, I am trying to debug the bottle neck(s) in a Solaris 10 Mailman/Spamassassin/Sendmail VMWare VM and get the following error from tcptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 1:35pm 103 # ./tcptop dtrace: failed to compile script /dev/fd/11: line 40: failed to resolve SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolve SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Yoder (kernel)
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:39:03PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Hi, I am trying to debug the bottle neck(s) in a Solaris 10 Mailman/Spamassassin/Sendmail VMWare VM and get the following error from tcptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 1:35pm 103 # ./tcptop dtrace: failed to compile script

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolveSS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Fletcher Cocquyt
Followup - this system has a lot of kernel activity and I/O - (top typically shows CPU 50% kernel) - but the hotkernel blorked with this (eventhough load avg was only ~2 and command line is responsive): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 1:41pm 114 # ./hotkernel Sampling... Hit Ctrl-C to end. dtrace:

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolve SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day, On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:39:03PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Hi, I am trying to debug the bottle neck(s) in a Solaris 10 Mailman/Spamassassin/Sendmail VMWare VM and get the following error from tcptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 1:35pm 103 # ./tcptop dtrace: failed to compile script

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolveSS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Followup - this system has a lot of kernel activity and I/O - (top typically shows CPU 50% kernel) - but the hotkernel blorked with this (eventhough load avg was only ~2 and command line is responsive): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed toresolve SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Replaced SS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT with SS_DIRECT in tcptop per the thread you cited - now I get a new error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 2:14pm 133 # ./tcptop dtrace: failed to compile script /dev/fd/11: line 163: failed to resolve

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolveSS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:16:02PM -0800, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Followup - this system has a lot of kernel activity and I/O - (top typically shows CPU 50% kernel) - but the hotkernel blorked with this

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolveSS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:48:47PM -0800, Fletcher Cocquyt wrote: Forgive me, where do I find 'interstat' ? Also, where can I get Sun::Solaris::Kstat for prustat? It's probably already under /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib - it's a vendor (Sun) supplied package. prustat was written as a demo tool - it

Re: [dtrace-discuss] tcptop error: failed to resolveSS_TCP_FAST_ACCEPT: Unknown variable name

2008-01-21 Thread Fletcher Cocquyt
Thanks - prustat works great once I point it at Sun's perl (I was using a newer install) I'm going to record some snapshots when the contention is happening... What if I wanted to quantify the latency (wait times) due to DNS lookups (I suspect I could benefit from a local caching install - but I