linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:13:07 -0600
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@...mi.au.dk>
Cc:	John Levon <levon@...ementarian.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...x.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

 
> It was only later I tried oprofile and found it not only much more
> difficult to use, but also much less useful when I did get it to work.

This surprises me. Can you please elaborate on why oprofile is "much
less useful" than sysprof?

Anton - who has used oprofile to analyse and tune databases, JVMs,
	compilers and operating systems. Maybe I've been missing out on
	the killer app for all this time!!!
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