[dtrace-discuss] anonymous memory and dtrace

2008-05-23 Thread Anil Jangity
I got an apache coolstack process that is using up 150mb of anonymous memory. The file system is on ZFS. The same software on another server is using about 30. There is no traffic to the apache server. I am wondering what on this specific system is causing it to use 150mb? How can I use

Re: [dtrace-discuss] IO probes and forcedirectio

2008-05-23 Thread Sébastien Bouchex Bellomié
Adam, I'm using Solaris 10U4 on a T2000 server. My UFS partition is mounted with the forcedirectio option and my database resides on this partition. I'm using the DtraceToolkit 0.99 and also custom Dtrace script executed with the remote cacao Dtrace API. If I use iofileb.d or iosnoop to check

Re: [dtrace-discuss] IO probes and forcedirectio

2008-05-23 Thread Bhaskar Sarkar
That's why I came to the conclusion that the io provided ignore forcedirectio mounted partition, but I wanted to be sure. io:genunix::start is in bdev_strategy(), which is lower than the file system level. It is not concerned with any file system, or its mount options. I suspect that you

Re: [dtrace-discuss] IO probes and forcedirectio

2008-05-23 Thread Sébastien Bouchex Bellomié
Hi, The following script is working fine as it display the directio start message [...] #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s #pragma D option quiet fbt:ufs:directio_start:entry { printf(directio start\n); } [...] However, taking my mount line, I don't see anything special : /rdata on

Re: [dtrace-discuss] IO probes and forcedirectio

2008-05-23 Thread Jim Mauro
I don't understand the question. I see forcedirectio set as a mount option, so I would expect ufs:directio_start:entry to fire /jim Sébastien Bouchex Bellomié wrote: Hi, The following script is working fine as it display the directio start message [...] #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s

[dtrace-discuss] Annoucement: Statically defined probes in Java now available

2008-05-23 Thread Keith McGuigan
Hello all, Apologies for the shameless promotion, but many of you on this list might be interested in this. The latest build of the Sun Java JDK for JDK7 now supports an interface for adding statically-defined DTrace probes to Java applications. I've written up a short blog entry [1] with an

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Annoucement: Statically defined probes in Java now available

2008-05-23 Thread Matt . Ingenthron
Keith McGuigan wrote: I've written up a short blog entry [1] with an overview and pointers to where you can get the binaries, documentation, and sources. It's still bleeding-edge, of course, so don't expect it to be perfect just yet, but definitely let me know if you try it and run into