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Re:Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands by tangothedog on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:54PM (#2869094)
systemtap is another utility in this vein that's worth checking out

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

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Re:Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands by nz on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:56PM (#2870890)
I already checked it out and the timer probes don't work at all.

On one system, I couldn't even invoke kernel functions.

On another system, the kernel panicked as soon as I executed `stap -e ...`.

Basically unusable, at this point.

I hope it improves because developers on linux could really benefit from dynamic tracing.

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