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The absence of DTrace in Linux is ultimately a licensing issue, because the CDDL and the GPL version 2 are incompatible.
by mwcampbell 13y ago
The absence of DTrace in Linux is ultimately a licensing issue, because the CDDL and the GPL version 2 are incompatible.
- th0br0 13y agoFor Linux, there's actually SystemTap which has some features than DTrace according to [1]. Sadly, I believe it's only on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS currently. [1] http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparison http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparis...
- bingaling 13y agoAlso perf can do some interesting dynamic tracing on linux. This talk (by one of the dtrace guys) discusses methods of linux performance analysis: https://www.joyent.com/blog/linux-performance-analysis-and-tools-brendan-gregg-s-talk-at-scale-11x https://www.joyent.com/blog/linux-performance-analysis-and-t...