LatencyTOP for OpenSolaris [PSARC/2009/339 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2009]

[Rainer Orth]

Sherry Moore <sherry.moore at sun.com> writes:

>    2.2. Risks and Assumptions:
> 	LatencyTOP uses probes from the proc, sched and lockstat DTrace
> 	provider. So, the OpenSolaris version in which LatencyTOP is run
> 	must have these probes available.
[...]
>     4.5. Interfaces:
> 
> 	Minor binding only.
> 
> 	INTERFACES				COMMITTMENT LEVEL
> 	==========				=================
> 	/usr/bin/i86/latencytop			committed
> 	/usr/bin/amd64/latencytop		committed
> 	/bin/i86/latencytop			committed
> 	/bin/amd64/latencytop			committed

Seems like a strange duplication, given that /bin is just a symlink to
/usr/bin.

> 	/usr/bin/latencytop (hard link)		committed
> 	/bin/latencytop (hard link)		committed
[...]
> ATTRIBUTES
>      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
>      butes:
> 
>      ____________________________________________________________
>     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
>     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
>     | Architecture                | x86, SPARC                  |
>     |_____________________________|_____________________________|

The interface list above only lists the x86 version, while SPARC is
mentioned here.  Since this seems to depend only on generic DTrace probes,
it should be available on SPARC as well (and if not, there needs to be a
strong justification for the omission).

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University