[ltt-dev] LTTng Project Update: March 7th 2011 edition

[Matthew Khouzam]

This is great! I hope this works out well. It will be a very welcome way 
for newcomers and lurkers to get up and running with what's new.

On 11-03-07 04:26 PM, Yannick Brosseau wrote:
> LTTng Project Update: March 7th 2011 edition
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I'm trying a new experiment here: creating a newsletter that I'll post on the
> mailing list and on the website of the project. I hope to include descriptions
> of ongoing development, summary of the last releases, pertinent events,
> publications and presentations. I don't know yet at which frequency I will be
> able to do that, so it will be published as often as I can.
>
> Upcoming event
> ---------------
>
> * March 11th at Confoo 2011: Using Linux tracing tools to analyze a LAMP stack
>    Yannick Brosseau will present the usage of LTTng and UST in the context of a
>    web server environment.
>    http://confoo.ca/en/2011/session/using-linux-tracing-tools-to-analyse-a-lamp-stack
>
>
> Releases summary
> -----------------
>
> * Userspace RCU 0.5.3 and 0.5.4 were released.
>    These releases introduce support for older ARM CPU (pre-ARMv7) and add a better
>    handling of fork(). New functions were added to the "bulletproof" (bp) flavor
>    to do a fork more cleanly.
>    The next release of UST will depend on this new API.
>
>
> Development news
> ----------------
> * UST: Lot of work was put in the last weeks into UST to fix several bugs. The
>    PPC build was fixed. Issues around the fork() system call are also being
>    fixed. We should expect a release soon which will depends on URCU 0.5.4.
>
>
> Distributions
> -------------
> * Debian: The latest LTTV, which is available in Debian since last month, made
>    it to Debian testing (Wheezy) last week.
>
>
> Publications
> ------------
>
> * The last edition of IEEE Software presented an article on LTTng:
>    Using Tracing to Diagnose or Monitor Systems
>    by Dominique Toupin
>    http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/0111/whatsnew/software
>
>
>
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