From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 19:09:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1693E16A41A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:09:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: from mailexchange.osnn.net (1e.66.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.102.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E088413C46A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: (qmail 57258 invoked by uid 0); 28 Nov 2007 18:39:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?168.158.222.36?) (xistence@0x58.com@168.158.222.36) by mailexchange.osnn.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 2007 18:39:20 -0000 Message-Id: <62844A9B-9046-4530-B16C-36D913B0DDE6@0x58.com> From: Bert JW Regeer In-Reply-To: <20071128124011.M80520@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-1072337061; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:43:05 -0700 References: <20071127171228.N94692@fledge.watson.org> <20071128054208.GA813@menantico.com> <20071128092434.J94692@fledge.watson.org> <20071128110550.GA2216@menantico.com> <20071128123826.GA813@menantico.com> <20071128124011.M80520@fledge.watson.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Updated procstat(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:09:48 -0000 --Apple-Mail-1-1072337061 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: > >> Skip Ford wrote: >>> Robert Watson wrote: >>>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote: >>>> >>>>>> - "-a" now means "all processes", >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. :-) I'm a little surprised. You seemed pretty >>>>> dedicated to a per-process tool. >>>> >>>> I was, but then I read your e-mail and became convinced that the >>>> first patch that would be submitted against procstat(1) would be >>>> a "-a" patch. :-) >>> >>> Yep, would've happened. Now the first patch submitted will be a "- >>> w interval" patch... :-) >> >> I couldn't resist implementing a crude interval arg just for kicks. >> Here's the output of find(1) every second. This is so cool: > > Very neat :-). If you like this, you'll love DTrace, which allows > you to do all sorts of things along these lines. I'll add a -w > mode, but be aware that if you want to do the below, what you really > want is DTrace :-), which allows you do do things like sample kernel > stack traces on the clock timer, based on function invocations, etc, > so you can do things like say "sample all the paths to a particular > kernel function". Now that John is updating DTrace again, I hope > that we'll be seeing it in the 8-CURRENT source RSN. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge Sorry, just a bit off topic Have the licensing issues been resolved with regards to DTrace? This is a feature I was looking forward to in 7.0-RELEASE but it had been delayed because of the licensing. Bert JW Regeer --Apple-Mail-1-1072337061--