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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> This recently caught my eye:
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9171/sam0406h/0406h.htm
> 
> There are a number of good sounding suggestions in there.

DTrace is pure magic.  It would be well worth your time to install
Solaris 10 just to try out DTrace for a day.  Keep in mind,
however, that it took them several man-years to develop just for
sparc64 and x86, so we're not talking about a port of it any time
soon...