perf-tools is a collection of performance analysis tools developed by Brendan Gregg. It is a set of scripts and utilities that allow you to analyze your system's performance using Linux's perf_event subsystem.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install perf-tools on Linux Mint Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation of perf-tools, we need to make sure that we have all the necessary dependencies installed on our system.
Open the Terminal and execute the following command to install the required dependencies:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y linux-tools-common linux-tools-$(uname -r)
Next, we need to clone the perf-tools repository from GitHub. Open the Terminal and execute the following command:
git clone https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools.git
This command will clone the perf-tools repository to your current working directory.
Now that we have cloned the perf-tools repository, we can install the tools by executing the following command:
cd perf-tools
sudo ./install.sh
This command will run the install.sh script, which installs the perf-tools to /usr/local/bin.
To verify that perf-tools has been installed successfully, execute any of the following commands:
# Display the list of available tools
sudo tplist
# Check the help section of any tool
sudo opensnoop -h
# Check the version of any tool
sudo opensnoop -V
If any of the above commands execute successfully and display the expected output, the installation of perf-tools has been successful.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install perf-tools on Linux Mint Latest. perf-tools is a powerful set of performance analysis tools that can help you analyze the performance of your system in great detail. With the help of these tools, you can identify performance bottlenecks and optimize your system's performance accordingly.
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