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- Sun 14 Aug 2011, 07:59
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How accurate is strace? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1877
Solved. I took amigos advice and this little pup went to play with the big dogs over at linuxquestions.org The answer lies with the kernel configuration options (CONFIG_HZ, CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS) and hardware clocks precision. Also running under any debugger/tracer (strace included) w...
- Sat 13 Aug 2011, 18:35
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How accurate is strace? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1877
- Sat 13 Aug 2011, 11:47
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: How accurate is strace? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1877
How accurate is strace? (SOLVED)
Greetings, Can anyone tell me if the time shown with "strace -T" for each system call is at all representative of the actual time taken when the program executes that sys_call? For example I write a program in C with a printf("hello"); then I do a strace with the -T option, among...
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 17:00
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: No sound after playing Youtube videos.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3018
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 16:50
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Fail to find the audio input rear back of computer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1248
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 16:45
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Fail to find the audio input rear back of computer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1248
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 14:10
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Fail to find the audio input rear back of computer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1248
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 11:22
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Fail to find the audio input rear back of computer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1248
Nooby, Some laptops (like mine), have no line input at all. As you may know, the sensitivity of the mic input is around 2 -3 millivolts where as line input is around 700 miilivolts hence the distortion when feeding inputs that are meant for the line in into the mic in. Also the mic input has a small...
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 09:37
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Paranoia for Beginners
- Replies: 247
- Views: 155855
- Sat 06 Aug 2011, 09:27
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Paranoia for Beginners
- Replies: 247
- Views: 155855
Hi nooby, Your anonymity on the internet is the least of your worries. How about things like your phone calls, credit card purchases, the books you lend from the library, the medicines you buy, your credit record, where you eat with your family and friends? Personally I don't give a monkey's #$% tha...
- Thu 04 Aug 2011, 22:04
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Paranoia for Beginners
- Replies: 247
- Views: 155855
- Thu 04 Aug 2011, 18:39
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Detect cursor position
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6654