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  Solaris Dynamic Tracing with DTrace

Course Duration

3 days

Course Overview

Solaris Dynamic Tracing, DTrace, is a new feature to Solaris 10. It is intended for use by System Administrators, System Tuning personnel, kernel developers and application programmers.

DTrace makes use of numerous built-in probes which are used to record arbitrary data from the system, trace processes on live systems, monitor kernel and application processes, all with minimal performance loss.

Who should attend

System Administrators, kernel developers system tuners and application programmers who require to monitor processes in detail on live systems.

Course Topics

  Introducing DTrace

Features, architecture, probes and D Scripts

  Using Dtrace

DTrace performance monitoring, aggregations, D variables, arrays, built-in macros

  Debugging applications

The pid provider, application variables, transient errors, file access.

  Debugging system problems

Accessing Kernel Symbols, Kernel variables and data structures, lock contention info, monitoring read calls, anonymous tracing, speculative tracing, DTrace privileges.

  Troubleshooting DTrace

Minimising performance impact, DTrace buffers, debugging DTrace scripts.

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