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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by mdani on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:37AM (#21505650)
It was great on physical hosts but could not get it working in EC2 VMs
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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by gnufx on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:08PM (#21508925)
It requires access to hardware counters you don't normally have in EC2, and at a privilege level I wouldn't want to enable in a multi-user compute system.
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