Suchakrapani Datt - Kernel and userspace tracing with LTTng and friends
Channel: Hasgeek TV
Date: 2015-08-07

Tracing is an important tool for diagnosing performance issues in critical applications (kernel/userspace). Sometimes debugging is just not enough as it may distort the application's flow itself. This talk shall discuss the most important features of the commonly used tracing tools (LTTng, SystemTap, Dtrace) and some surprisingly cool features they have (such as fast tracing from inside GDB)