systemtap-devel

system - development headers, tools

systemtap

instrumentation system for Linux

SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the tedious and disruptive instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence that may be otherwise required to collect data. SystemTap provides a simple command line interface and scripting language for writing instrumentation for a live running system.

systemtap-client

instrumentation system for Linux (client for compile server)

This package contains client for SystemTap compile server. It can be used to compile probes on a remote machine running systemtap-server. This client can be run on a machine without full kernel debug information and development environment required for 'systemtap' package. If you only want to compile systemtap probes locally just install 'systemtap' package. SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.