Archive for August 2009

I love it when a plan comes together – systemtap meets java!

With the recent releases of Systemtap 0.9.9 and IcedTea7 1.11 some pieces of the systemtap whole system observability picture come together. On top of the “meta-probes” in hotspot (for garbage collection, monitors, object allocation, threads, etc.) we now also see the java language level tracing coming to life. Always wondered what really was going on […]