What Brendan Gregg thinks about Linux

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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30 Apr 2025

Our readingMajor Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by default

Their wordsThis is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.

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