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DTrace is a powerfull tool, no question. And the easy to use web interface makes SmartOS pretty compelling to try out. However all this debugging could have be

• dmpk2k 15y ago
  In retrospect it's obvious. Unfortunately, most software is not so thoroughly logged; there isn't enough time, and people make mistakes.
  • eis 15y ago
    Absolutely. You can't avoid people making mistakes - it's human. But software that does not do propper logging exactly leads to spending time on debugging that could have been avoided. It's saving time by not adding logging that causes wasted time in the end :) Usually tools like DTrace are used to find hot-spots, points of contention, places which block other stuff and so on. Not to pull a Cpt. Hindsight but this one could have been avoided if the software was crafted a bit more carefully. I'm not sure if the proxy needed to be written using NodeJS, there are plenty of existing proxies that work just fine and give you exactly the errors in the log that you need for 99% of cases. Just saying there is a lesson to be learned here.