Re: [dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Ernest
That was a weird typo. Appreciate the catch. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Mauro
# dtrace -qn 'syscall:::exec-success { trace (execname); }' ^ The exec-success probe is managed by the proc provider, not the syscall provider. So the probe designation should be; proc:::exec-success (or just 'exec-success'). (for t

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-22 Thread Amit Saha
Michael, James, Richard! Thanks a lot for all your suggestions! It helped a lot, I have blogged it here http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/introducing_dtrace_to_newbies Thanks! -Amit On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Michael Ernest wrote: > One aspect of DTrace I enjoy is that you can show pe

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Ernest
One aspect of DTrace I enjoy is that you can show people something surprising without a lot of foundational knowledge. You can ask a question like this: If you wanted to know how many processes were running on your system at any time, how would you do it? Most people even lightly familiar with

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-20 Thread James Dickens
I like Bryan Cantrill's Google video, a bit long for your audience but still he has a way of drawing in the audience, but I am a Sys-Admin who gets into this stuff. James Dickens Uadmin.blogspot.com On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Amit Saha wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is how I would like to int

[dtrace-discuss] Introducing DTrace to a newbie audience

2009-03-20 Thread Amit Saha
Hi all, Here is how I would like to introduce DTrace to an audience which is not aware of anything remotely related to observability of a system. Please feel free to provide your suggestions, because that is the only way this will help me in my effort. Thank You. To introduce DTrace, you will