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Oxide and Friends

CHAPTER

DTrace for Storage Performance Analysis and System Understanding

The speakers discuss their experience using DTrace for storage performance analysis and system understanding, highlighting its usefulness for their work with Rust and its ability to handle mangled symbols and deep inlining. They also mention using DTrace to debug a data corruption problem and express their appreciation for its ability to instrument arbitrary instructions. The chapter concludes with a mention of postmortem tracing as a useful feature.

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