On 07 Jun 2007 10:51:17 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
Peter Bach wrote:
> [...]
[...]
> The real value is that SystemTap is not only useful for solving
> problems in during the development cycle, but illuminates how Linux
> works under the covers, in the most dynamic way, when it is actually
> running. This is much more useful that perusing the code. The target
> audience for this is only every CS student on the planet.
Yeah - mind if I quote you on that? ;-)
- FChE
I teach a commercial Linux system internals course. Last year I added
a lab to the course that introduced the students to SystemTap.
At one point we spend several hours learning how to write a loadable
module in order to trace some system data structures. Afterwards, I
show them how to achieve the same result in a few lines of SystemTap
code.
thanks to all the SystemTap people for an invaluable tool.
darrell