The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. 2023, 2024: Frame Pointers in Fedora and Ubuntu! The actual overhead depends on your workload.
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