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 ...

In the embedded/real-time arena, where operating system licensing costs are high and so are the stakes, the usage of an open-source operating system such as Linux has many advantages. Apart from the ...

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 ...