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| 76 | > Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is a tracing tool that permits to get all the possible |
| 77 | execution information from the Linux Kernel. It is based on kernel |
| 78 | instrumentation and a high-speed relay file system to copy the information from |
| 79 | the kernel space to the user space. |
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| 82 | > Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV) is the second generation of visualization |
| 83 | tool. It is based on a trace format (the files where the data is recorded on |
| 84 | disk) written by the LTTng tracer. |
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