Re: finish_task_switch high in profiles in 2.6.7

Andi Kleen
2004-06-24T11:36:11Z

> Hmm, Is there a way to determine which syscall would be the culprit. I
> guess this is where something like DTrace would be invaluable

Find out which program does it (most likely those with the most
system time) and then strace it.
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/

Sounds like a inferior clone of dprobes to me. But I doubt it
would help tracking this down.

-Andi