I would like to apologize in advance that the presentation tonight will be a little light on material and more focused toward SystemTap than DTrace.
I will be giving away a couple of books at the end of the meeting. One is the official DTrace book with a ton of recipes, and the second is a "Systems Performance" book that discusses both DTrace and SystemTap in context of overall systems performance analysis. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Michael Dexter <[email protected]>wrote: > Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement > > Who: Daniel Hedlund > What: Dynamic Tracing with DTrace and SystemTap > Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance) > When: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 at 7pm > Why: The pursuit of technology freedom > > Dynamic Tracing with DTrace and SystemTap > > DTrace (http://dtrace.org/blogs/about/) is a dynamic tracing framework, > originally developed for Solaris, has been released under the CDDL > license and ported to many other Unix-like OSes including FreeBSD, OS X > and Linux. > SystemTap (https://sourceware.org/systemtap/) provides similar > functionality to DTrace but is Linux specific and released under the GPL. > > Dynamic tracing tools make it possible to safely inject instrumentation > points (probes) into running applications on production environments; no > recompilation is necessary and there is only minimal performance > overhead when being used, and no overhead when not. Probes can be used > to gather performance metrics to identify bottlenecks, create aggregate > statistics such as the size distribution of filesystem writes, or to > introspect arguments passed to individual functions in a running > application without ever taking it offline. > > > Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting. > > Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250465544 > > PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/ > Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux > > See you there! > > Michael Dexter > PLUG Volunteer > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
