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Canonical Announces ETrace As New Linux Application Tracing For Performance/Debugging

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 22:55
Canonical has announced ETrace as a new application tracing tool designed for debugging and performance profiling of Snap packages but can also be used with any Linux binary applications...

Intel Compute-Runtime 20.43.18277 Brings Alder Lake Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 22:35
Intel Compute-Runtime 20.43.18277 is out this morning as the latest version of the company's open-source graphics compute stack for HD/UHD/Iris/Xe Graphics on Linux with OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support...

RadeonSI Lands Optimization For Uber Shaders

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 21:31
On top of the AMD Zen L3 cache optimizations hitting Mesa 20.3 today, Marek Olšák has also landed his RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code for optimizing OpenGL uber shaders...

Mesa 20.3 Lands Rewritten AMD Zen L3 Cache Optimization

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 18:30
You may recall going back to 2018 that well known open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olsak was working on Mesa optimizations around the AMD Zen architecture. In particular, better handling of Mesa for Zen's L3 cache design. A rewritten implementation of that has now landed along with some other improvements...

Oracle Continues Building DTrace For Linux Atop BPF

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 18:01
More than a decade ago Linux users tended to be envious of Sun Microsystems' Solaris for ZFS and DTrace as the two most interesting technical selling points of the platform. In that time OpenZFS is now extremely vibrant for offering ZFS on BSD and Linux systems while DTrace is barely brought up these days. This tracing framework originally developed for Solaris was fantastic back in the day but over the years Linux has stepped up its game with various efforts. Now as we hit the end of 2020, Oracle engineers continue working on bringing better DTrace support to Linux...

How to Monitor Performance Of CentOS 8/7 Server Using Netdata

Tecmint - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 16:23

There are tons of monitoring tools that are used for keeping an eye on systems performance and sending notifications in case something goes wrong. However, the installation and configuration steps involved are often tedious.

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Intel's Cloud-Hypervisor 0.11 Adds Windows Guest Support

Phoronix - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 15:41
Intel has a shiny new feature release out of their open-source Cloud-Hypervisor that runs atop KVM and leveraging the Rust programming language...

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