GIL tracer

🚧 Work in progress 🚧 [task board]

GIL tracer for CPython. Built on eBPF, works only on Linux.

Install dependencies

To trace with BCC

See the official bcc instructions.

To trace with bpftrace

See the official bpftrace instructions.

A particularly convenient option is to download an AppImage. This way you get the latest bpftrace.

Run tracer

Trace GIL with BCC event collector

sudo main.py -p 7031

Trace GIL with bpftrace (no GUI yet)

sudo bpftrace -p $pid tracing_programs/trace_without_lines.d

or

sudo bpftrace -p $pid tracing_programs/trace_with_lines.d