System Software Meeting Minutes, 2006-09-25

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:55:30PM +0530, Tushar Adeshara wrote:

 > > What do we need for performance analysis?  Chris Ball: systemtap
 > > needs no kernel support.  Marcello added new config options.
 > > We need strace, valgrind (no dependencies), sysprof (needs atk),
 > > ltrace (no dependencies), memprof (needs bonobo, etc, so it loses
 > > unless the dependencies can be reduced).
 > 
 > oprofile is also a good system-wide profiler, it works out of box on
 > FC4 and provides good results.
 > http://oprofile.sourceforge.net

I don't think the geode has performance counting MSRs, which oprofile needs.

	Dave