[ug-bosug] [dtrace-discuss] DTracing GNOME startup

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

This might be an area some of us can contribute to. See the request  
from one of the gnome developers. A good student project as well.

Cheers,
~Joe


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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