Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Jan 2008 20:18 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize system latencies. Slow servers, skipping audio, jerky video - everyone knows the symptoms of latency. But to know what's really going on in the system, what's causing the latency, and how to fix it... Those are difficult questions without good answers right now. LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen. By identifying this, developers can then change the code to avoid the worst latency hiccups."
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Agreed. People often don't realize that the first step to fixing any performance problem is being able to measure the problem accurately, so you don't waste time fixing the wrong thing. Often the bottleneck is where a developer would never expect it to be.