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by forkqueue 5921 days ago
SystemTap is great for general system issues, but isn't nearly as good when trying to look at issues that occur inside the JVM.
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nailer 5920 days ago
PS. Check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticProbes for info on current Java status (which seems to be more developed than we think).
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nailer 5921 days ago
True. I believe they're adding providers to the major VMs though (I mainly work in Python so I focus on the cPython VM, but I have heard of some early JVM introspection work too).
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