On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:

> At Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:11:43 +0200,
> Pierre Beyssac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Just curious: would it be easily doable to profile the kernel by
> > sampling the program counter, la profil(2) but for kernel mode?
> > Has anyone attempted to write this?
> 
> You can enable kernel profiling by configure kernel with `-p' or '-pp'
> option. See config(8) and kgmon(8) for detail.
> 
> I have a patch for FreeBSD/alpha to support kernel profiling.

Another excellent alternative for kernel profiling is iprobe.

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