• What is system Tap ?

  • SystemTap provides environment to get more information on almost any component within the kernel so that it may be further analyzed.

• What we need to run system tap ?

  • - Need below group of packages to run system tap in system :
  • kernel-debuginfo
  • kernel-debuginfo-common
  • kernel-devel
  • systemtap-runtime
  • gcc
• To get more information on system tap refer below link :

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/langref/SystemTap_overview.html