On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> There was a profiling tool for Solaris kernel modules that was 
> nonintrusive to the applicaion's code. The way it worked was by 
> bombarding the kernel with interrupts, and checking the stack backtrace 
> each time to see what it interrupted the kernel in doing. This way, it 
> gave a statistical analysis of where the CPU was spending it's time.
> 
> I wonder whether such a tool exists for Linux userspace as well.

oprofile, http://oprofile.sf.net.

Cheers, 
Muli 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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