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Saturday, January 26 • 2:00pm - 2:25pm
Profiling and tracing from ptrace to SystemTap

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Modern OS and CPUs come with a variaty of APIs for monitoring. Ptrace based commands like strace are easy to use but slow. Perf allows lightweight profiling. SystemTap is a powerfil toolkit plus DSL to instrument probe points inside the Kernel as well as static SystemTap/DTrace markers in libs and languages like Java, PHP, and Python. In my talk I'll show and compare various low and high level tools as well as visualization tools, e.g. how to create flame graph.
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Christian Heimes

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Christian is a long time Python developer from Hamburg/Germany and contributor to several Open Source projects such as the CPython interpreter. In the past years he has helped to keep Python secure, for example as member of the Python security response te

Saturday January 26, 2019 2:00pm - 2:25pm CET
A112
  Debugging / Tracing, Beginner - no experience needed

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