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Linux Tools Project/Systemtap/User Guide/ide/frequentlyAskedQuestions.html
Frequently Asked Questions
This section details frequently asked questions relating to the IDE Perspective.
Where can I find information regarding the Systemtap scripting language?
A: The best place to look for up to date information regarding Systemtap itself is its homepage - http://sourceware.org/systemtap/documentation.html
How do I run a script once I've written it?
A: There are different options as far as running your Systemtap script. Please visit the Menus to learn more about the four ways of running Systemtap scripts.
Why does the application seem to hang when switching to the IDE Perspective?
A: If this is the first time you are trying to open the IDE perspective, or have recently gotten a new version of SystemTap this is expected. In order to generate a full list of all of the available probes, and functions the GUI has to run the stap command. If there are tapsets that do not run correctly using the 'stap -up2' comamnd this takes a long time. In order to build as complete a list as possible it will use a binary filtering algorithm to figure out which tapset function is broken and generate data for all of the others.