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  74 >Chapter 1. Introduction</H1
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  76 >&#13;Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is a tracing tool that permits to get all the possible
  77 execution information from the Linux Kernel. It is based on kernel
  78 instrumentation and a high-speed relay file system to copy the information from
  79 the kernel space to the user space.
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  82 >&#13;Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV) is the second generation of visualization
  83 tool. It is based on a trace format (the files where the data is recorded on
  84 disk) written by the LTTng tracer.
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  87 >&#13;This document explains all the steps that are necessary in order to record a
  88 trace with LTT and view it with LTTV.
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