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Analysis
An interesting article from IBM:
Static Analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Valgrind
Valgrind is a suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.
The Valgrind distribution currently includes four tools:
- a memory error detector
- a cache (time) profiler
- a call-graph profiler
- a heap (space) profiler
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system and user programs:
Frysk
The goal of the frysk project is to create an intelligent, distributed, always-on system monitoring and debugging tool that allows developers and system administrators to monitor running processes and threads (including creation and destruction events), monitor the use of locking primitives, expose deadlocks, gather data and debug any given process by either choosing it from a list or by accepting frysk's offer to open a source code or other window on a process that is in the process of crashing or that has been misbehaving in certain user-definable ways.
