System information

6 Kernel Probes 87
6.1 Supported Architectures ...................................................................... 88
6.2 Types of Kernel Probes ....................................................................... 88
6.3 Kernel probes API .............................................................................. 89
6.4 Debugfs Interface ............................................................................... 90
6.5 For More Information ......................................................................... 91
7 Perfmon2—Hardware-Based Performance Monitoring
93
7.1 Conceptual Overview .......................................................................... 93
7.2 Installation ......................................................................................... 95
7.3 Using Perfmon ................................................................................... 96
7.4 Retrieving Metrics From DebugFS ....................................................... 99
7.5 For More Information ....................................................................... 102
8 OProfile—System-Wide Profiler 105
8.1 Conceptual Overview ........................................................................ 105
8.2 Installation and Requirements ............................................................. 106
8.3 Available OProfile Utilities ................................................................ 106
8.4 Using OProfile ................................................................................. 106
8.5 Using OProfile's GUI ........................................................................ 109
8.6 Generating Reports ........................................................................... 110
8.7 For More Information ....................................................................... 110
IV Resource Management 113
9 General System Resource Management 115
9.1 Planning the Installation .................................................................... 115
9.2 Disabling Unnecessary Services .......................................................... 117