Getting Your Feet Wet with DTrace

Jim Laurent uses an illuminating metaphor in writing about DTrace in his blog, where he likens the facility to a CAT scan that in turn allows users to see things as doctors, who heal the sick, rather than as coroners, who search for causes of death. His blog highlights a number of tools that can make using DTrace somewhat less formidable than starting with only the 400 page instruction manual. [...read more...]

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