SystemTap on Ubuntu 7.04 i386

[darrell pfeifer]

On 07 Jun 2007 10:51:17 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Peter Bach wrote:
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> > [...]

[...]

>
> > 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