soc2008 DTrace toolkit

Fer Gleiser fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar
Mon May 5 02:16:29 UTC 2008


LiQun Li wrote:
> Hi, all,
> My name is LiQun Li, originally from China, now study in University of
> Iowa. I am a graduate student, majored in Computer Science.
> I have used Open Source Software for a while, most time under Linux, a
> little bit under FreeBSD.
> DTrace is a really cool feature for Solaris, it will be great if OSS
> has this one too.
> This sumer, Google sponsors this SOC, and FreeBSD has this project. I
> am going to have a try.
> Since my courses will end after the middle of May, I would not spend
> too much time on this project before that.
>   

I'm also working on porting some DTrace providers to FreeBSD (a  subset 
of sched, vminfo and sysinfo). John Birrel is leading the main effort an 
we're basing our work on his latest sources.

What parts of DTrace are you planing to do?


Fer




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