KernelShark 2.0 Released For Continuing To Visualize Linux Traces

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KernelShark 2.0 Released For Continuing To Visualize Linux Traces

Two years after KernelShark 1.0 for visualizing the Linux kernel's "trace-cmd" tracing, KernelShark 2.0 has now been realized...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KernelShark-2.0-Released

[ArthurBorsboom]

Funny. The news article talks about the release of v2.0 including a link to the site.

If you have a look there, you will see a proud release announcement... of v1.3.

[skeevy420]

We're goona need a bigger initrd.

[uid313]

This is how it looks like:

[bug77]

This is how it looks like:

So it aims to make data more readable, yet it won't display timestamps in a format humans can read. Nice.
Not to mention it hasn't figured out numbers need to be aligned to the right.

[Guest]

This is how it looks like:

Oooh nice! I couldn't get it to work, the last time I tried. Just ended up using trace-cmd directly (or poking the aystrace files directly).

[cueball]

So it aims to make data more readable, yet it won't display timestamps in a format humans can read. Nice.
Not to mention it hasn't figured out numbers need to be aligned to the right.

Just an observation, but maybe look at it with a glass half full rather than pointing out some reasonably meaningless observations on what is an amazing effort in visualising something incredibly complex.

[bug77]

Just an observation, but maybe look at it with a glass half full rather than pointing out some reasonably meaningless observations on what is an amazing effort in visualising something incredibly complex.

I look at it like a software developer: a product in its infancy that misses a lot of important stuff. Yes, presenting data in a UI is important, not "reasonably meaningless".