7.6. Using the trace facility

The trace facility is a flexible system monitoring service that supplies a stream of events. It is up to you what information you extract. Trace provides detailed information about system activity based on a collection of pre-defined system events. You can add new trace hooks into your application in order to examine the application behavior. By utilizing trace hooks, your application may be debugged without having core files.

Please refer to the “Analyzing Performance with the Trace Facility” section of the AIX 5L Version 5.2 Performance Management Guide for further information.

7.6.1. Introduction to trace

Events are the basics of every trace running. These events are compiled into kernel or application code, ...

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