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It's so surreal to see Brendan Gregg discussing Linux tools. It's like watching Iron Man wielding Thor's hammer. Which is not to compare Brendan to Iron Man,
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
It's so surreal to see Brendan Gregg discussing Linux tools.
It's like watching Iron Man wielding Thor's hammer.
Which is not to compare Brendan to Iron Man, but it's as weird as that would be.
- brendangregg 10y agoThanks, but I should stress that my example here didn't do much that was really advanced. There was a little ftrace and BPF, gdb reverse stepping and the TUI, but the other gdb commands are routine. I guess what's useful is explaining everything, including caveats that you can hit even with the basic stuff.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoNo, I'm not complaining, it's just odd seeing you primarily work with solaris for so many years, and now talking about linux toolsets instead. I mean, I still remember you dissmissing SystemTap, although I believe you later said it had improved... Speaking of which, as I understand it, dbx is to gdb as adb is to mdb. So other than syntax, what IS difference between the adb and dbx families, as you've clearly used both?