Re: [perf-discuss] [observability-discuss] "procsh" vs. proctools...

2007-07-20 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Roland, On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:49:07PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Hi! > > > > This is an old idea based on the observation that many process > monitoring tools or scripts are more or less |fork()|-bombs, for example > sdtprocess calls /usr/bin/ps for each cycle and other tool

Re: [perf-discuss] "procsh" vs. proctools...

2007-07-20 Thread adrian cockcroft
Back in 1993 this was the main reason that the SE toolkit language was built. Its an interpreted C with all the system monitoring interfaces integrated into it, so you can write clean and very efficient scripts that process all the performance information there is without forking. Rich Pettit crea

[perf-discuss] "procsh" vs. proctools...

2007-07-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! This is an old idea based on the observation that many process monitoring tools or scripts are more or less |fork()|-bombs, for example sdtprocess calls /usr/bin/ps for each cycle and other tools use many of the tools in /usr/proc/bin/ to collect information, process them through variou

[perf-discuss] kstat bindings for ksh93 / was: Re: [observability-discuss] Project proposal: CPUfs

2007-07-20 Thread Roland Mainz
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