Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:23:08 +0000 (GMT) From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxperf@nl.linux.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] oprofile profiler oprofile is a low-overhead statistical profiler capable of instruction-grain profiling of the kernel (including interrupt handlers), modules, and user-space libraries and binaries. It uses the Intel P6 performance counters as a source of interrupts to trigger the accounting handler in a manner similar to that of Digital's DCPI. All running processes, and the kernel, are profiled by default. The profiles can be extracted at any time with a simple utility. The system consists of a kernel module and a simple background daemon. Typical overhead is around 3 or 4 percent. Worst case overhead on a Pentium II 350 UP system is around 10-15% You can read a little more about oprofile, and download a very alpha version at : http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ oprofile is released under the GNU GPL. thanks john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/