If `strace`ing a process fixes your problem you should try `perf trace`ing it instead. It works at a lower level (using kernel tracepoints rather than the ptrac

If `strace`ing a process fixes your problem you should try `perf trace`ing it instead. It works at a lower level (using kernel tracepoints rather than the ptrace API) so it disturbs the traced process less, at the cost of having less powerful output (it doesn't capture e.g. the actual data being written to a pipe).