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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RE: Intel is great on the profiling tools
by JoeBuck on Fri 18th Jan 2008 21:19
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It is interesting that Intel has done so much work on creating profiling and performance tools for the end user. First powertop and now latencytop, tackling problems and things that otherwise would be a slower, much more tedious process to analyze.
While not as glitzy (or as large) as many projects these tools are a great asset to linux. It will be interesting to see if Intel continues to come up with *top style tools for different problem areas in performance that otherwise might be ignored.