What is an XPerf alternative for Linux and Mac OS X?
Solution 1
For linux you can combine many tools. top (or htop), iotop, etc. You could also install BSD accounting and use the sa command.
Solution 2
For OS X, look into dtrace and derived tools (I think fs_usage and sc_usage are related; there's also a Linux port), as well as parts of Apple's Developer Tools such as Shark (see e.g. here and here).
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Tamara Wijsman over 1 year
XPerf is a tool that allows you to take a detailed trace of various system activity like CPU, I/O and more...
Because of it's detail you can see stack trace counts, disk position offset graphs, driver calls and so on...
Is there a XPerf-a-like alternative for Linux and Mac OS X? What are the top-notch performance tools there?
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HikeMike about 13 yearsSome (or all?) of accounting is also available on OS X.
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Traveler almost 7 yearsCheck out Instruments for the new version.
