On 30 Sep 2011, at 21:43, Maidak Alexander J wrote:

> I have a T5240 running Solaris 10u9 (144488-07) and using java "1.6.0_23".  
> Doing a simple “/bin/java –version” is terribly slow and and takes many 
> seconds (12-30+).  Looking at the startup with truss I see, it hang for many 
> seconds on:
>  
> open64("/dev/dtrace/helper", O_RDWR)            = 3
>  
> If I “export DTRACE_DOF_INIT_DISABLE=1” before running “/bin/java –version” 
> the command takes less then 1 second.  I assume this disables the dtrace 
> helper program from loading/linking with java.  I’m stumped as to why dtrace 
> would be causing a performance slowdown in this situation.  I have other 
> similarly configured T5240’s running the exact same Solaris and Java 
> releases, but they’re not exhibiting the same issue.   Any advice as to what 
> might be causing this issue would be much appreciated.

Can you post a snippet of 'truss -d' output surrounding the
open64()?

R


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