can we measure the traffic between user and kernel mode

Pravin Shedage pravinshedage2008 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 06:56:29 EST 2011


Hi,

You can use *top* command to know traffic of processes in your cpu.

another if you want to debug that running application then you can also try
gdb

# gdb --pid <pid_of_application>


Thanks & Regards,
-------PraviN-------


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:56, loody <miloody at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I got a user-mode application without symbol and source, and it keeps
> > console no response about 2 mins.
> > I just want to know whether it is busy on processing itself or do the
> > context switch frequently for calling kernel drivers at that time.
>
> well then, strace/ltrace is probably the right tool to do the job :)
> or just use /proc/<pid>/stack :)
>
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>
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Thanks & Regards,
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