X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fquickstart.txt;h=06b308406c0a7134655a02bb46b3d09f2b492aa6;hp=50e155e85ec584adf5c19af2a4bbc2e32caed6df;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fsow-2021-0002-rev1;hpb=6bf5e7c9c58c736978108e197e1b529471ff3ac7 diff --git a/doc/quickstart.txt b/doc/quickstart.txt index 50e155e85..06b308406 100644 --- a/doc/quickstart.txt +++ b/doc/quickstart.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ NOTES: 2011-12-12: For user-space tracing, only the global UST domain ("-u" alone) is supported meaning that if you enable a tracepoint for user-space it will be -enabled for all applications for the current tracing session you are working +enabled for all applications for the current recording session you are working on. QUICKSTART @@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ This is a quick start guide for the complete LTTng tool chain. This is divided in three sections respectively kernel tracing, user-space tracing and reading a trace. -See the README file for installation procedure or use the various Linux +See the README.adoc file for installation procedure or use the various Linux distribution packages. In order to trace the kernel, you'll need the lttng-modules 2.0 compiled and -installed. See http://lttng.org/lttng2.0 for more instructions for that part. +installed. See https://lttng.org/lttng2.0 for more instructions for that part. For user-space tracing, you'll need an instrumented application with lttng-ust 2.0. lttng-tools provide a session daemon (lttng-sessiond) that acts as a tracing registry. To trace any instrumented applications or the kernel, a registered -tracing session is needed beforehand. To interact with the session daemon and a -tracing session, you should use the lttng command line UI (lttng). It is also +recording session is needed beforehand. To interact with the session daemon and a +recording session, you should use the lttng command line UI (lttng). It is also possible to use the liblttngctl library for tracing control (lttng.h). Here is a list of some powerful features the LTTng 2.0 kernel tracer offers: @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ List available kernel events: # lttng list -k -1) Create a tracing session. The .lttng directory will be created with .lttngrc +1) Create a recording session. The .lttng directory will be created with .lttngrc file in $HOME containing the session name (here 'mysession') you are working on. @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ applications. However, if you run the session daemon under non-root user rights, only applications of that user will be traced. So, after instrumenting you applications with LTTng-ust 2.0 -(http://lttng.org/lttng2.0), upon startup, it will automatically register to +(https://lttng.org/lttng2.0), upon startup, it will automatically register to the session daemon. If there is none running, it will simply wait on a seperate thread for a session daemon to appear and then register. @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ List available registered applications: $ lttng list -u -1) Create a tracing session. The .lttng directory will be created with a +1) Create a recording session. The .lttng directory will be created with a .lttngrc file in $HOME containing the session name (here 'mysession') you are working on.