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You could, but eBPF might be a more sensible way to get the same information: http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html



That's comparable to DTrace. The Solaris kernel debugger, kmdb, is something else, and really worth knowing (if only it was universally adopted by C-coded kernels!).

With kmdb you get to write shell-like pipelines using powerful data structure traversal builtins, and it is safe (you can't crash the system by dereferencing NULL pointers). Really, it's quite fantastic.




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