Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace (SA-327-S10)

Who Can Benefit

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Prerequisites

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Skills Gained

• Use DTrace to find the source of intermittent problems.
• Use DTrace to look at the cause of performance problems.
• Use DTrace to help debug applications.
• Find System problems with DTrace
• Troubleshoot DTrace script problems.

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Related Courses

Before:

• Solaris 9 Operating System Internals (SP-365)
• UNIX System Interface Programming (SI-220)

After:

• Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)

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Course Content

Module 1 - DTrace Fundamentals

• Describe the features of DTrace
• Describe the DTrace architecture

Module 2 - Using DTrace

• Examining performance problems using DTrace
• Use DTrace to obtain information about system calls
• Create D Scripts that Use Arguments

Module 3 - Debug Applications with DTrace

• Use DTrace to profile an application
• Use DTrace to access application variables
• Use DTrace to find transient system call errors
• Use DTrace to determine the names of files being opened

Module 4 - Finding System Problems with DTrace

• Use DTrace to access kernel variables
• Use DTrace to obtain information about read calls
• Use DTrace to do anonymous tracing
• Use DTrace to do speculative tracing
• Explain the privileges necessary to run DTrace operations

Module 5 - Troubleshooting DTrace Problems

• Describe how to lessen the performance impact of DTrace
• Describe how to use and tune DTrace buffers
• Debug DTrace scripts

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