SystemTap: Instrumenting the Linux Kernel for Analyzing Performance and Functional Problems

Publish Date
20 January 2009

Last Update
08 April 2009

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Author(s)

Bart Jacob is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist at IBM - International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has over 25 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM products and technologies, including communications, object-oriented software development, and systems management. Since joining the ITSO in 1989, he writes IBM Redbooks and creates and teaches workshops around the world on a variety of topics. He holds a master's degree in Numerical Analysis from Syracuse University.

• Bart Jacob

Paul Larson is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM in Austin, TX. He has been using Linux since 1993 and working in the Linux Technology Center at IBM since 2000. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. His areas of expertise include Linux, testing, networking, and clustering.

• Paul Larson

Breno Henrique Leitao is a Software Engineer in Brazil. He has 11 years of experience in Linux and three years of experience working in kernel space. He has worked on LTC at IBM for two years. His areas of expertise include Linux, network and device drivers. He has a computer science degree from Universidade de Sao Paulo, and is pursuing his masters at Universidade de Campinas.

• Breno Henrique Leitao

Saulo Augusto M Martins da Silva is an Infrastructure Specialist at IBM in Brazil. He has 12 years of experience in Linux Architecture and five years dedicated to Linux/390. Since joining IBM two years ago he has worked with Linux on System z performance and monitoring. He has a Computer Information System Degree from Faculdade de Ciencias Gerencias - UNA. He has RHCE certifications and LPI certification.

• Saulo Augusto M Martins da Silva

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REDP-4469-00