www.info.polymtl.ca/~karym/trace
It will enable you to know exactly what is happening in your system at
each moment. You could also try Andrea Arcangelli's kernel profiling
patch, for which I don't remember the link, but it shouldn't be hard
to find, if you search around a little.
Thomas van Gulick wrote:
>
> Is it possible to profile the kernel? Somewhere there's a 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 but like to know for sure so I won't
> purchase scsi perpherals for nothing...
>
> Thomas
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