2012-03-10
Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X
Brendan's blog » Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X: "Standard performance analysis tools like Activity Monitor and top(1) (and any third-party tools based on the same foundation) can’t tell you some key information about activity on your system, such as how much CPU consumption is caused by short-lived processes, or which processes are causing disk I/O. DTrace, however, can see (just about) everything."