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Oracle Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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Preface

1.  About DTrace

2.  D Programming Language

3.  Aggregations

4.  Actions and Subroutines

5.  Buffers and Buffering

Principal Buffers

Principal Buffer Policies

switch Policy

fill Policy

fill Policy and END Probes

ring Policy

Other Buffers

Buffer Sizes

Buffer Resizing Policy

6.  Output Formatting

7.  Speculative Tracing

8.  dtrace(1M) Utility

9.  Scripting

10.  Options and Tunables

11.  Providers

12.  User Process Tracing

13.  Statically Defined Tracing for User Applications

14.  Security

15.  Anonymous Tracing

16.  Postmortem Tracing

17.  Performance Considerations

18.  Stability

19.  Translators

20.  Versioning

Principal Buffers

The principal buffer is present in every DTrace invocation and is the buffer to which tracing actions record their data by default. These actions include:

exit
printf
trace
ustack
printa
stack
tracemem

The principal buffers are always allocated on a per-CPU basis. This policy is not tunable, but tracing and buffer allocation can be restricted to a single CPU by using the cpu option.