Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 DTrace (Dynamic Tracing) Guide

DTrace Buffers and Buffering

Data buffering and management is an essential service provided by the DTrace framework for its clients, such as dtrace. This chapter explores data buffering in detail and describes options you can use to change the buffer management policies of DTrace.

• Principal Buffers

• Principal Buffer Policies

• Other Buffers

• Buffer Sizes

• Buffer Resizing Policy