On 08/22/2010 08:58 PM, Frank Sorenson wrote: > Why would we have to depend on DTrace? I can think of several ways to > do this without DTrace. And why would we want DTrace, when we've got > SystemTap? >
Finally a useful response! Thanks Frank. :) On Ubuntu 10.04, I tried running the callgraph tracing example here: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/index.html But all I could produce were syntax errors. > First, there's "gstack" (aka pstack), > I couldn't find a way to get gstack on Ubuntu 10.04. It's not part of Ubuntu's gdb package apparently. Sounds promising, though. Any idea where I can get it? > Then, there's "fstack", which is a part of frysk. > I'll have to look into this one as well, though it does not appear to be packaged in Ubuntu at the moment. I'll see if I can get source and install manually. --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
