Re: [dtrace-discuss] lsof vs Dtrace

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Bruun-Hansen
A few comments to what has already been posted: pfiles It is true that you can find the same information as what lsof is producing by using a script that uses the Solaris 'pfiles' command. One such example is PCP (http://www.unix.ms/pcp/). I have to warn against this. [i]pfiles will stop the

Re: [dtrace-discuss] lsof vs Dtrace

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Bruun-Hansen
It would be really useful if you could elaborate on how pfiles screwed up your daemons. Though pfiles will stop a process to get its information, it does so for a very short period of time and in a fashion that should be undetectable to the target process. Unless a

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Why am I getting drops?

2008-04-21 Thread Lars Bruun-Hansen
From what I understand on this thread : http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5133053tstart=30 there is a hardcoded limit in DTrace of 16M for the buffer size when you are not running as root. Why, why, why ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org