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Re: KERNEL PROFILING

On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:58:54 +0000 "shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com> wrote:

| HI ALL,
|   I am trying to profile the linux kernel. Can any one suggest an easy way 
| to do. Like, I wanted to see how much TCP is using CPU, how much of CPU is 
| used in memcpy, etc.
| Can any one please suggest me.

Start with the file linux/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
(it's in Linux 2.5.66-or-so or later).

It explains how to use oprofile and readprofile.

You can read about oprofile at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ .

You can read about basic in-kernel profiling using /proc/profile
and readprofile via 'man readprofile'.  It's simple to use.

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