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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

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. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Don't blame the straw, in this case, don't blame the frame pointers.

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