On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
wrote:
> Why not browse the Apple port of The DTraceToolkit itself ?
>
> It uses averunnable.ldavg instead of the Solaris specific hp_avenrun.
> Found from having a look at the OS-X port of DTrace at:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource
>
> < > > As a DTrace starter project I'd like to understand how to
> extract
> < > > common performance metrics before diving too far in. One of
> these
> < > > common metrics is load average, which I thought would be
> pretty easy.
> < > > However, I'm confused by this code snippet (from
> < > > http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/iotop):
It's even easier than that, because Apple included much (all?) of
Brendan's
DTrace Toolkit in Mac OS X. The amazing thing? It's already in your
path:
$ cd /usr/bin
$ grep 'Brendan Gregg' * | wc -l
94
This includes /usr/bin/iotop. Brendan, if you don't write that damned
blog
post about this, I will!
Adam
--
Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
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