Profiling NodeJS applications with Linux Performance Tools
Using Linux Perf Tools
The Performance Analysis Tool for Linux (perf) is a powerful tool to profile applications. It works by using a mix of hardware counters (is fast) and software counters, all provided by the Linux Performance Counter (LPC) subsystem that takes charge of the complex task of wrapping the CPU counters for the different type of CPUs. So you can have access to a very efficient way to get information of running processes through their C API or a convenient command in this case (perf).
This command gives you access to a great variety of system and process level events but in this entry, I will use it to investigate CPU bounded issues.
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