i haven't tried this myself, but from roberts description it sounds like it causes the application you attempt to trace to crash.
ed On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:54:27AM -0700, Adam Leventhal wrote: > Hey Ed, > > What's the failure mode of the pid provider in a branded zone? I imagine it > could be quite nasty. > > Adam > > On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > > > oops. my recommendation to use the pid provider was misguided since, as > > one of my co-workers pointed out, currently the pid provider and > > plockstat are not supported on s9 (or s8) branded zones, as documented > > here: > > > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4490/gfjbk?a=view > > > > ed > > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:39:01PM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> > >> you might be right and you probably are that's why I want to use PID > >> provider but unfortunately there is some bad interaction between PID > >> provided and Oracle when running in a S9 zone which causes Oracle to > >> crash. Adam is looking into it. > >> > >> I got another window I can look at it tomorrow and I will try to use > >> profile provider. > >> I will also try to run the same Oracle directly under Solaris 10 > >> global zone and see if it behaves the same way or not. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dtrace-discuss mailing list > >> dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > dtrace-discuss mailing list > > dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > -- > Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
