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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A high-performance tracing system for Linux

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Kernel space: The Linux trace toolkit's next generation

By Jake Edge
Kernel debugging systems can slow the kernel enough to hide or change the bugs they're looking for. A new tracing system would minimize the performance penalty of running with tracing on. Read full story


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