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Perf
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For those put off by the baroque interface and daunting learning curve of Oprofile, Ingo Molnár's perf tool (included with the linux kernel since at least version 2.6.30 in tools/perf) is a quick and easy way to get data from x86's performance counters.
See Also
- 2009-06-06 LKML post announcing version -v8
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