| Summary: | dev-util/trace (new package) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Brandon Captain <caibbor> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | base-system, hwoarang, xmw |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1063399 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
@base-system: interested? |
After years of efforts we have not succeeded in meeting (let alone exceeding) the utility of decades-old user-space tracing tools such as strace - except for a few new good tools such as PowerTop and LatencyTop. 'trace' is our shot at improving the situation: it aims at providing a simple to use and straightforward tracing tool based on the perf infrastructure and on the well-known perf profiling workflow: trace record firefox # trace firefox and all child tasks, put it into trace.data trace summary # show quick overview of the trace, based on trace.data trace report # detailed traces, based on trace.data Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: