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Subject: Looking for mutex contention in Linux IOCs
From: Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:42:54 -0700

fyi. I have written up a note on using the Linux systemtap tracing tool to investigate mutex contention in IOCs.  A bit esoteric, but something which occasionally comes when analyzing EPICS driver performance limitations.

https ://github.com/mdavidsaver/ltrace/blob/master/ioc_mutex_contention.md



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