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For those put off by the baroque interface and daunting learning curve of [[Oprofile]], Ingo Molnar's perf tool (included with the linux kernel since at least version 2.6.30 in <tt>tools/perf</tt>) is a quick and easy way to get data from x86's [[Performance Counters|performance counters]].
For those put off by the baroque interface and daunting learning curve of [[Oprofile]], Ingo Molnár's perf tool (included with the linux kernel since at least version 2.6.30 in <tt>tools/perf</tt>) is a quick and easy way to get data from x86's [[Performance Counters|performance counters]].


==See Also==
==See Also==
* 2009-06-06 [http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/6/149 LKML post] announcing version -v8
* 2009-06-06 [http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/6/149 LKML post] announcing version -v8