On DTrace envy

Posted Aug 7, 2007 21:26 UTC (Tue) by ahl (guest, #40497)
In reply to: On DTrace envy by prasadav
Parent article: On DTrace envy

SystemTap project is very young (2.5 years) and it is still work in progress. We have come a long way in this short amount of time due to our flexible architecture but I agree with you that we need to focus making it usable to administrators of all levels.

By way of comparison, DTrace was being used in production a bit more than a year after development started, and it integrated after being in development for less than two years (it has, of course, evolved since then).

On DTrace envy

Posted Aug 7, 2007 23:36 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] (1 responses)

Not really a fair comparison unless we are told how much much effort has been expended on each project, not just how much time.

On DTrace envy

Posted Aug 8, 2007 0:21 UTC (Wed) by ahl (guest, #40497) [Link]

Fair point:

I'm a member of the DTrace team. Development started with two people in October 2001; I joined about 6 months later. We integrated into Solaris in September 2003 so the original effort took about 5.5 man years of work. From 2003-2005 (when Solaris 10 shipped), the focus for the three of us continued to be DTrace, but we had several other projects on the side as well.