From 3cb837a1af0ccad4ba335ee6b21e906a3021d198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ddomingo Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:29:56 +1000 Subject: revised as per latest from wcohen, started out errors, minor edits throughout --- doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml') diff --git a/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml b/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml index 67547bd8..36dd3c44 100644 --- a/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml +++ b/doc/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/en-US/Introduction.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Introduction - SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool that provides users to study and monitor the activities of the operating system (particularly, the kernel) in fine detail. It provides information similar to the output of tools like netstat, ps, top, and iostat; however, SystemTap is designed to provide information that is more "granular" in nature. + SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool that allows users to study and monitor the activities of the operating system (particularly, the kernel) in fine detail. It provides information similar to the output of tools like netstat, ps, top, and iostat; however, SystemTap is designed to provide more filtering and analysis options for collected information. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ** Short summary; when is SystemTap suitable vs other popular monitoring tools (e.g. top, Oprofile, /proc) - SystemTap was originally developed as a working Linux version of Dtrace. Dtrace is a Sun Microsystems "dynamic tracing" framework that assists administrators in monitoring and troubleshooting kernel and user-space applications in real time. + SystemTap was originally developed as a working ∏ version of old Linux probing tools such as dprobes and the Linux Trace Toolkit. Further, SystemTap can also be considered the Linux answer to Dtrace. Dtrace is a Sun Microsystems "dynamic tracing" framework that assists administrators in monitoring and troubleshooting kernel and user-space applications in real time. SystemTap aims to supplement the existing suite of Linux monitoring tools by providing users with the infrastructure to track kernel activity. In addition, SystemTap combines this capability with two things: -- cgit