Chapter 13. Profiling and Tracing
Interactive debugging using a source level debugger, as described in the previous chapter, can give you an insight into the way a program works, but it constrains your view to a small body of code. In this chapter, I will look at the larger picture to see if the system is performing as intended.
Programmers and system designers are notoriously bad at guessing where bottlenecks are. So, if your system has performance issues, it is wise to start by looking at the full system and then work down, using more sophisticated tools. In this chapter I begin with the well-known command, top, as a means of getting an overview. Often the problem can be localized to a single program, which you can analyze using the Linux profiler, ...
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