:Kernel Space: The Linux Trace Toolkit's Next Generation
Kernel Space: The Linux Trace Toolkit's Next Generation Jan 16, 2008, 20 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (9253 reads) (Other stories by Jake Edge)
"Instrumenting a running kernel for debugging or profiling is on the wish list of many administrators and developers. Advocates of OpenSolaris like to point to DTrace as a feature that Linux lacks, though SystemTap has started to close that gap. The Linux Trace Toolkit next generation (LTTng) takes a different approach and was recently submitted for inclusion in the kernel (in two patches: architecture independent and architecture dependent).
"LTTng relies upon kernel markers to provide static probe points for its kernel tracing activities..."
