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11.3. Additional Resources

A detailed description of SystemTap and its features is beyond the scope of this book. For more information, see the resources listed below.

Installed Documentation

  • stap(1) — The manual page for the stap command provides detailed information on its usage, as well as references to other related manual pages. To display the manual page for the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset, type:
    scl enable devtoolset-6 'man stap'
  • staprun(8) — The manual page for the staprun command provides detailed information on its usage. To display the manual page for the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset, type:
    scl enable devtoolset-6 'man staprun'
  • SystemTap Tapset Reference ManualHTML documentation on the most common tapset definitions is located at /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/share/doc/devtoolset-6-systemtap-client-2.8/index.html.

Online Documentation

See Also

  • Chapter 1, Red Hat Developer Toolset provides an overview of Red Hat Developer Toolset and more information on how to install it on your system.
  • Chapter 12, Valgrind explains how to use Valgrind to profile applications and detect memory errors and memory management problems, such as the use of uninitialized memory, improper allocation and freeing of memory, and the use of improper arguments in system calls.
  • Chapter 13, OProfile explains how to use OProfile to determine which sections of code consume the greatest amount of CPU time and why.
  • Chapter 14, Dyninst documents how to use the Dyninst library to instrument a user-space executable.