RE: Profiling the kernel?

Mike Jagdis (Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:38:36 +0200


> Is it possible to profile the kernel? Somewhere there's a
AFAIK Top is the only tool available for profile

> bottleneck in my
> system which results in high loads (but top doesn't display
> the percentages
> correctly, ie idle == 70%, while system load is 0.80 or something) ...
> I suspect it is the IDE subsystem
Maybe some swapdisk heavy loads due to memory lack ?
Some process such as httpd require high process time too...
btw could you post your top results so we can find some reason.

< but like to know for sure so I won't
> purchase scsi perpherals for nothing...
Some kernel tuning _can_ help

Fabian

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