Many userspace developers want a “flight recorder” for applications on Linux. While Solaris offers a comprehensive tracing tool, dtrace, Linux is now growing pieces of tracing functionality. Dynamic ...

One of the nice things about Linux and similar operating systems is that you can investigate something to any level you wish. If a program has a problem you can decompile it, debug it, trace it, and — ...

Kernel debugging systems can slow the kernel enough to hide or change the bugs they’re looking for. A new tracing system would minimize the performance penalty of running with tracing on. LTTng relies ...

Percepio (Sweden), developer of the visualization and analysis tool Tracealyzer, has announced versions of the software targeting VxWorks and Linux. Tracing is a common technique for analyzing bugs or ...