A quick reminder that Google's tech talk is tonight at 5pm in
Harrelson 107. Details are below. Please note the formal presentation
will be followed by any infosession with a panel of Google engineers
and recruiters. Hope to see you there!
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Let's Talk.

About Google. About technology. And about you. Let's see where all
this conversation takes us. Google will be on your campus soon. If
you're interested in technical positions at Google, don't miss this
event.

Did we mention free food and t-shirts?
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Kernel Tracing
Dick Sites, Software Engineer, Google
North Carolina State University
Harrelson, Room 107
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
5:00 PM

Abstract: Tracing every entry and exit to an operating-system kernel
can reveal much about the performance of production software. Care
must be taken to keep the tracing overhead low (under 1% is good), and
to handle multiple CPUs and multiple threads properly.

Detailed blow-by-blow tracing is a different model of
performance-information gathering than the more-common profiling.

Sample output is shown of some Google-related code. One performance
mystery is discussed, along with its trace output, the eventual
insight, and its resolution. A simple change improved performance by
20x.

Speaker: Dick Sites has been at Google for a year and a half, working mainly on
performance analysis tools. Prior to joining Google, he worked at
Adobe for seven years and at Digital Equipment for 16 years, where he
worked on VAX microcode and Alpha architecture. Dr. Sites went to MIT,
University of North Carolina, and Stanford. He holds over 35 patents
and has co-authored one book.
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For more information on jobs at Google, visit http://www.google.com/jobs/students

11/9/2005 10:34:00 AM

Quote :

"Speaker: Dick Sites "

I giggled.

11/9/2005 11:14:37 AM

MORE LIEK YOU GOOGLED! AMIRITE!

11/9/2005 11:23:14 AM

YOU WOULD BE CORRECT SIR! HAR HAR!

11/9/2005 1:33:49 PM

This reminds me, i got screwed out a shirt last time they were here b/c there weren't enough

11/9/2005 3:50:54 PM

They brought many of them this time... but come early. I'm hoping for a crowd!

11/9/2005 3:53:45 PM

i saw google tech talk and i thought of tech talk

11/9/2005 5:19:00 PM

[beavis]Heh heh, you said VAX, heh heh[/beavis]

11/9/2005 5:58:22 PM