In article <20080919114528.5yzyki2ry8044g4s_at_0x20.net> you write: >Quoting John Birrell <jb_at_what-creek.com>: > >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:10:13PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: >>> Dtrace was commited 3 months ago and the only things that prevents >>> using it "out of the box" is building kernel with WITH_CTF=1. >>> >>> When is this going to be enabled on default. What is preventing this >>> from happening? >> >> I wonder whether people generally want it enabled by default. > >If it doesn't slow anything down, then why not? > At least on 7-stable (I didn't try HEAD) kgdb doesn't seem to like dtrace bits in the kernel, backtraces look like from a kernel without debug symbols... Also there seem to be issues with fbt probes, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045180.html and SMP support at least on amd64, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045093.html >Are there any FreeBSD specific docs on this? Maybe a short article for >/usr/share/doc or a new chapter for the handbook? :-) I dunno about FreeBSD specific, but I liked this presentation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228&ei=XLPNSMv5KpKw2QKysZzBAg&q=dtrace (video is called Dtrace Review if you need to search it.) Thanx, JuergenReceived on Sun Sep 21 2008 - 11:38:26 UTC
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