DTrace requires support from the kernel to work. It started out in Solaris, then was ported to FreeBSD (which is why it's in Mac OS X). I don't think it's suppo

DTrace requires support from the kernel to work. It started out in Solaris, then was ported to FreeBSD (which is why it's in Mac OS X). I don't think it's supported by Linux in general, but it appears that Oracle ported DTrace to Oracle Linux just recently: https://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030113-oracle-ports-dtrace-to-oracle-267298.html https://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/030113-oracle-ports-d... If you want to give DTrace a try, you could try PC-BSD (the desktop version of FreeBSD) -- there are preinstalled images for VMWare, VirtualBox, etc., and live USB images if you prefer: http://www.pcbsd.org/en/download.html http://www.pcbsd.org/en/download.html