Tag: Tracing

Linux BPF/bcc for Oracle Tracing

26 May 2016

Linux BPF/bcc for Oracle Tracing Topic: In this post you will find a short discussion and pointers to the code of a few sample scripts that I have written using Linux BPF/bcc and uprobes for Oracle tracing. Previous work and motivations Tools for dynamic tracing are very useful for troubleshooting and internals investigations of Oracle
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Linux Perf Probes for Oracle Tracing

21 January 2016

Linux Perf Probes for Oracle Tracing Topic: this post is about Linux perf and uprobes for tracing and profiling Oracle workloads for advanced troubleshooting. Context The recent progress and maturity of some of the Linux dynamic tracing tools has raised interest in applying these techniques to Oracle troubleshooting and performance investigations. See Brendan Gregg‘s web
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