[dtrace-discuss] DTracing GNOME startup

[Alberto Ruiz]

Hi there,

I've been using OpenSolaris for three months now, and I've started to get
interested about to get my hands dirty with DTrace. Since I have an strong
GNOME background, I would like to use it to help GNOME developers to find
performance problems. Federico Mena Quintero, one of the Novell GNOME guys
is one of the people that are working on GNOME performance stuff. He posted
this request on his blog asking opensolaris people to provide information
about ipc during the GNOME startup:

http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2007-04.html#dtrace-help-for-ipc

I've tried to learn DTrace to provide such help, but its like trying to
drink the whole sea at once for me since I'm not used at all to lots of
things at this level (ipc syscalls etc), I mean, I know what they are, I
know what they do, but I don't know what should I look for to learn how to
solve it.

I would appreciate any kind of script examples that help me to understand
what I need to create the proper scripts to provide federico what is he
asking for.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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