From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267516AbUHXAp6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267495AbUHXAp2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:45:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48083 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268159AbUHXAku (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:40:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:39:06 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Robert Milkowski Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, kloczek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl, usenet-20040502@usenet.frodoid.org, miles.lane@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Message-Id: <20040823173906.193f9af8.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <200408191822.48297.miles.lane@comcast.net> <87hdqyogp4.fsf@killer.ninja.frodoid.org> <1093174557.24319.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:48:57 +0200 (CEST) Robert Milkowski wrote: > >> [1] Remember: if you want profile some part of code you mast _first_ > >> (re)compile them with profiling enabled. If you wand debug some code > > > > OProfile doesn't require this. > > I must admit I don't know OProfile. > But can you profile already running application without interuption (not > to mention stopping it) to it? Yes, this is exactly what oprofile allows you to do. Same with things like valgrind.