DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD - Softcover

Gregg, Brendan; Mauro, Jim; Mynhier, Chad; Magdon-Ismail, Tariq

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9780132091510: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD

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ISBN 10: 0132091518 ISBN 13: 9780132091510

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2011

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From the Back Cover:

The first guide to DTrace: the breakthrough debugging tool for Mac OS X, Unix, Solaris, and OpenSolaris operating systems and applications

Complete coverage: architecture, implementation, components, usage, and much more

Covers integrating DTrace into open source code, and integrating probes into application software

Includes full chapter of advanced tips and techniques

For users of DTrace on all platforms

Foreword by Bryan Cantril, creator of DTrace

DTrace represents a revolution in debugging. Using it, administrators, developers, and service personnel can dynamically instrument operating systems and applications to quickly ask and answer virtually any question about how their operating systems or user programs are behaving. Now available for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, thousands of professionals are discovering DTrace - but, until now, there's been no comprehensive, authoritative guide to using it. This book fills that gap. Written by four key contributors to the DTrace community, it's the first single source reference to this powerful new technology. The authors cover everything technical professionals need to know to succeed with DTrace, regardless of the operating system or application they want to instrument. The book also includes a full chapter of advanced tips and techniques.

About the Author:

Brendan Gregg is a performance specialist at Joyent and is known worldwide in the field of DTrace. Brendan created and developed the DTraceToolkit and is the coauthor of SolarisTM Performance and Tools (Prentice Hall, 2006) as well as numerous articles about DTrace. Many of Brendan's DTrace scripts are shipped by default in Mac OS X.

Jim Mauro

is a senior software engineer for Oracle Corporation, working in the Systems group with a primary focus on systems performance. Jim has 30 years of experience in the computer industry and coauthored SolarisTM Performance and Tools and the first and second editions of SolarisTM Internals (Sun Microsystems Press, 2000, and Prentice Hall, 2006).

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