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.
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SystemTap is tool which provides facility to user to study and monitor the activities of the kernel in detail. 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
How to run SystemTap ? SystemTap scripts are run through the command stap. stap can run SystemTap scripts from standard input or from file.