DTrace for FreeBSD - Status Update

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Thu May 25 11:33:52 PDT 2006


Peter Jeremy wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-May-25 06:55:10 +0000, John Birrell wrote:
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>>My FreeBSD Project Page: <http://people.freebsd.org/~jb/dtrace/index.html>
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>Your "What processes fork during a buildworld and how many times?" output
>doesn't look right: make should do lots of forking.
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make probably does 'vfork()'

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>>There are things people can do to help. Some of them are build related;
>>some are build tool related; some are user-land DTrace specific; and the
>>rest are kernel related. Speak up if you are interested in working on
>>this!
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>I'd like to help but not sure if I have the time.  Do you have more
>detail on what is needed?
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>BTW, how much of DTrace is MD and what CPU architectures are supported?
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