This week at LWN: Memory part 7: Memory performance tools

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 22, 2007 5:48 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Ulrich Drepper
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A wide variety of tools is available to help programmers understand the cache and memory use of a program. Modern processors have performance monitoring hardware that can be used. Some events are hard to measure exactly, so there is also room for simulation. When it comes to higher-level functionality, there are special tools to monitor the execution of a process. We will introduce a set of commonly used tools available on most Linux systems.

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