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Hi All, We held our 3rd meeting on Tuesday 25th July. There's a writeup on Tim's blog about the meeting, and we have Sean's slides online Here are the details for the next meeting:
This month's main topic was DTrace. Sean McGrath, an engineer in the Sun Ireland Performance Group gave us an introduction to the Dynamic Tracing facility in OpenSolaris and will also be did some live demos for us. If you're doing any application development on any UNIX-like operating system, and that app can be compiled on OpenSolaris, then you really should investigate DTrace – it's well worth a few hours of your time (and it'll almost certainly pay back that time a thousand-fold once you learn how to use it!) Sean's had asked that anyone who has applications which compile on OpenSolaris (x86 if possible) that they bring them along, and we would have a look at any possible performance problems they might have: DTrace is best demoed on applications the audience is familiar with, so that was your chance – if a bit of software has been bugging you, and you're not sure what's wrong, DTrace can help. Examples could be:
(the list is endless) We want your applications! As well as that, did a quick run-down of OpenSolaris-related things that have happened since our last meeting in June. Regarding the location, if the East Point venue suits everyone, then it's easy enough for us to reserve rooms here, with projectors, internet connections, etc. but if people think that's too inconvenient, other suggestions as to venues would be welcome (esp. ones near pubs that stay open past 8pm (I'm looking at you, East Point Bar!)) Thoughts and comments are welcome! (oh, and tell your friends!) |