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Linux block I/O tracing

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GKB
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
Mar 28, 2017

Like starting a car with the hood open, sometimes you need to run your program with certain analysis tools attached to get a full sense of what is going wrong – or right. Be it to debug an issue, or simply to learn how that program works, these probing tools can provide a clear picture of what is going on inside the CPU at a given time.

GKB

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

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