[LUGSB] Today's meeting?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Tue Nov 1 14:48:31 EDT 2011


On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:28:20PM -0400, Mark Drago wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:21, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:56:10AM -0400, Matthew Gruen wrote:
> >> Ooh. That sounds fun.
> >>
> >> I could give a talk about ptrace, strace, ltrace, and the unloved
> >> younger stepsister, utrace.
> >
> > Real men use dtrace. :P
> >
> > Jeff.
> 
> ...or SystemTap.   :o)

Here's a blog post from the "don't shout at your disks video" [1]:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/15/using-systemtap/

Specifically, I'd like to draw your attention to the "Safe use on production
systems".

Brendan has plenty of really good DTrace blog posts about monitoring system
load (filesystem, disk, etc.).

Jeff.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

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