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System Tracing

Shark’s System Trace configuration records an exact trace of system-level events, such as system calls, thread scheduling decisions, interrupts, and virtual memory faults. System Trace allows you to measure and understand how your code interacts with Mac OS X and how the threads in your multi-threaded application interact with each other. If you would like to gain a clear understanding of the multi-threaded behavior of a given program, characterize user vs. system processor utilization, or understand the virtual memory paging behavior of your application, then System Trace can give you the necessary insight.

Contents:

Tracing Methodology
Basic Usage
Interpreting Sessions
Sign Posts
Tips and Tricks

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