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SystemTap vs Valgrind

A side-by-side look at SystemTap and Valgrind. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

SystemTap

SystemTap

Development

SystemTap is an open source scripting language and tool for dynamically tracing Linux systems. It provides information about a running Linux system to help diagnose performance or functional problems.

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Valgrind

Valgrind

Development

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. It can detect memory management and threading bugs, and profile programs. Valgrind helps programmers improve code quality by detecting reading/writing of uninitialized memory, memory leaks, and more.

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