8.3 - System Profiling in Linux
Enroll to start learning
You’ve not yet enrolled in this course. Please enroll for free to listen to audio lessons, classroom podcasts and take practice test.
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
What is the primary purpose of system profiling?
💡 Hint: Think about how profiling helps performance.
Name one tool used for profiling user-space applications.
💡 Hint: Consider popular tools for measuring performance.
4 more questions available
Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What does gprof help you analyze?
💡 Hint: Consider what profiling focuses on in programming.
True or False: Valgrind can only profile user-space applications.
💡 Hint: Think about the versatility and capabilities of Valgrind.
1 more question available
Challenge Problems
Push your limits with advanced challenges
You have a C program that runs too slowly. Describe how you would use gprof to identify performance bottlenecks.
💡 Hint: Recall the steps for using gprof from class.
Your kernel module has performance issues. Explain how to use ftrace to analyze its performance.
💡 Hint: Think about how to activate tracing for monitoring function calls.
Get performance evaluation
Reference links
Supplementary resources to enhance your learning experience.