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On the value of static tracepoints

On the value of static tracepoints

Posted Apr 29, 2009 2:22 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: On the value of static tracepoints by compudj
Parent article: On the value of static tracepoints

LKML is scary and forbidding.
You're suggesting i wander into a contentious topic and start opinionating?

I am a Linux user who does, among other things, systems performance tuning. I do this ad hoc and also as a significant portion of my job. Luckily I have the freedom to do portions of my work on Solaris, where dtrace is accessible. Unfortunately the Solaris internals are generally less well documented or at least less familiar than Linux to me.


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On the value of static tracepoints

Posted Apr 29, 2009 5:22 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Andrew Morton has said before that he would like to hear from more users and perhaps you should just do that with some good information on why and how these features are useful. The worst you will get is some flames from other people. Not a huge deal, really.

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