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Windows has really nice tracing and WPA is pretty powerful. I've not yet seen a tool that is similarly easy to use on Linux. You can get most of the raw data from perf, but the tooling for analyzing the data isn't as good. I'd love to hear about a tool that for Linux allows doing Dawson's wait analysis easily if anyone knows of one.

I agree about the lack of source - it's really nice to be able to see exactly what the kernel is doing on Linux.

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>I agree about the lack of source - it's really nice to be able to see exactly what the kernel is doing on Linux.

Debug symbols do help a ton on Windows.

That's definitely true, and the debug symbols story is better on windows (in my experience) than other platforms - AFAIK linux has no real equivalent to symbol servers.

Debian debug symbol packages are pretty nice [0].

But if you want a repository for your own debug symbols, multitude of symbol versions and ease of use then you're out of luck.

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage

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