DTrace Quick Reference Guide

By Ifeyinwa Okoye and John Stearns, August 2006

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing facility that is built into the Solaris OS. DTrace can be used by administrators and developers, and can safely be used on live production systems. DTrace enables you to examine the behavior of user programs as well as the behavior of the operating system. Users of DTrace can create custom programs with the D scripting language. Custom programs provide the ability to dynamically instrument the system. Custom programs provide immediate, concise answers to specific questions about the behavior of particular applications.

This Quick Reference Guide includes the following tables:

For more information, see the DTrace User Guide on the Oracle Documentation site.

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