June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
OProfile and gprof are two statistical profilers that predate perf. They are both offer subsets of the functionality of perf, but they are still quite popular. I will mention them only briefly.
OProfile is a kernel profiler that started out in 2002. Originally, it had its own kernel sampling code, but recent versions use the perf_events infrastructure for that purpose. There is more information about it at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net. OProfile consists of a kernel-space component and a user space daemon and analysis commands.
OProfile needs these two kernel options to be enabled:
If ...
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