[elrepo-devel] [suggest] dtrace and systemtap package?

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Amos Shapira wrote:

> 2009/9/28 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>:
>> Well, dtrace requires a loadable kernel module (maybe something for ELRepo,
>> I don't know) and some tools. Without the kernel module, the tools have no
>> use so we first have to see whether there is an interest to put this in
>> ELRepo.
>>
>> It is clear that the recommended (and supported) way of tracing your kernel
>> is systemtap. So my personal opinion is that it may not be worth all the
>> trouble given that we may not be able to provide a working dtrace in the
>> future.
>>
>> If there are compelling reasons that dtrace is very important for certain
>> things, let them be known :-)
>
> Sorry, no compelling reason except that I'm looking for ways to
> improve our visibility to our systems' performance (together with the
> software developers, most of the software we have on our servers is
> home-grown) and hearing a lot about how dtrace is simpler and better
> than systemtap.
>
> Probably not enough to waste your time. I'll try to get it compiled by
> myself. Will try to report here if we create an rpm for it.

That would be very helpful. Thanks in advance !

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