Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:25:12 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, jb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml Message-ID: <87r6e1l2lz.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080323161123.S10013@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:11:44 %2B0000 (GMT)") References: <200803212018.m2LKIDpD046926@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080323163749.63ff9587@deskjail> <20080323161123.S10013@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:11:44 +0000 (GMT), Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> (Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:18:13 +0000 (UTC)): >>> rwatson 2008-03-21 20:18:13 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD doc repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> en/projects/ideas ideas.xml >>> Log: >>> Add two specific DTrace tasks that might be worked on as part of Summer >>> of Code. >>> >>> Submitted by: jb >> >> It may be beneficial to explain in a short sentence what the DTrace >> toolkit is. This would help people without much knowledge about DTrace >> to make a decision if an entry is interesting for them or (I played a >> little bit around with DTrace on Solaris, and I don't know what this >> toolkit is, I would have to look it up myself). > > Yeah, I agree -- if John sends me a sentence I'd be happy to add it for him. The DTrace Toolkit is a collection of useful DTrace scripts, that implement various task based aggregation and analysis tools on top of the core DTrace functionality (i.e. filesystem statistics, memory statistics, process-name based tracing, etc.) The above is probably ok as the `one sentence' description, but let's wait for John to see if he has a better one :)
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