As of the current FreeBSD 8.0, the DTrace implementation in the operating system has two major missing features. The probes into the operating system itself aren't very comprehensive, yet. And so far, only root can use DTrace. Both these limitations are being worked on, and FreeBSD may move closer to Solaris in terms of how capable it is for doing DTrace work in future releases.
DTrace on FreeBSD
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