Friday, January 11, 2013

DTrace and the little ustack helper that could

DTrace and the little ustack helper that could: "Flamegraphs are awesome if you need to profile your node.js application. They provide a nice looking visual view of where your application is spending its time. Although they're well documented, no one has ever said a word on how they work internally, but everyone mentions "ustack helper" which, right now, works only on SmartOS."