Matthew Bromley-Barratt wrote: > Hello all, > > Newbie question: I'd like to use Dtrace for the following. In my source code > I want to place function calls that, when executed, results in an entry in a > trace log. As my programme runs the log grows and stores a record of when my > programme called the trace log functions. I then want to be able to view the > accumulated log in some tool which displays when the programme executed the > trace log functions on a per thread basis. The ideal would be time on the > horizontal axis, threads on the vertical, and marks plotted for each time a > trace log function had been called. Is this possible with Dtrace and > associated tools? > > My background is in real time OSes, primarily WindRiver's VxWorks, and they > do an excellent tool called System Viewer (used to be called WindView) which > does as descibed above and whole lot more (semaphore acquisitions, priority > inheritence, interrupts, device driver and kernel activity, the lot). Take a > look at: > > Figure 1.1 in: > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/exp/glast/flight/sw/vxdocs/windview/wvug/c-intro.html#83877 > > Page 10 in: > http://www.windriver.com/products/product-notes/workbench-product-note.pdf > > Windview is excellent, makes multithreaded programming easy as pie, and it's > a nasty shock to come to the main stream OS world and find that the > development tools lack something as fundamentally good as this. Can Dtrace do > the same? > > Cheers, > > Matthew
Matthew, you might be interested in Performance Analyzer which is part of Sun Studio (http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/overview/topics/analyzer_index.html). Menno _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
