Timechart: Finding out why your Linux computer performs the way it does has
Finding out why your Linux computer performs the way it does has been a hard task. Sure, there is Oprofile, and even 'perf' in recent kernels. There is LatencyTOP to find out where latencies happen. But all of these tools are rather limited when the software stack that has the performance issue is more complex than a single program. The tool that comes closest to being useful is `bootchart', but that has a rather limited resolution. http://blog.fenrus.org/?p=5
