Even though there aren’t DTrace probes for MySQL released yet, we can still get useful information from MySQL. DTrace has a pid provider which allows us to get into any function the program is executing and see it’s arguments. The only drawback is you have to go digging around in the source code to find [...]
Read More»Ben did a nifty little presentation at CommunityOne recently, and while I don’t personally understand 1/2 of the techno babble in it, I am told most of you will find this rather useful.
Think Solaris = Slow-aris? Think again. Ben is here to tell you otherwise.
And I would like to [...]
Read More»Earlier this week we released a patch that adds DTrace capability to Ruby 1.8.5. We chose 1.8.5 because it’s what we’ve been using in production, though 1.8.6 is the latest stable release.
It now brings me tremendous pleasure to release a patch against Ruby 1.8.6. You’ll find it in the same repository as the [...]
We committed ourselves to Solaris as our base operating system two years ago as Solaris was becoming OpenSolaris. We needed a solid operating system that was 32/64bit, can manage lots of CPUs and RAM, one that we could contribute to, and we realized that three features would be a competitive advantage if we became experts [...]
Read More»It’s a far cry from iMovie, but my hat is off to EyeSpot for the pure gumption of attempting this, let alone pulling it off.
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