Project Summary
SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence that may be otherwise required to collect data.
SystemTap provides a simple command line interface and scripting language for writing instrumentation for a live running kernel and user-space applications.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 73 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2005
ending with its most recent commit about 2 months ago
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