Download Intel LatencyTOP 0.3

Intel’s Open Source Technology Center has released a new version of LatencyTOP. The program has arrived at version 0.3 and can be accessed by clicking this link be downloaded for Linux. LatencyTOP is a useful tool for software developers that shows which operations and actions cause system latency. The program targets applications that want to run useful code, but are put on hold by the kernel because the requested resource is not available. It is unknown what has changed in version 0.3. LatencyTOP is described as follows:

LatencyTOP is a Linux tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where system latency occurs, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen. By identifying this, developers can then change the code to avoid the worst latency hiccups.

There are many types and causes of latency, and LatencyTOP focus on type that causes audio skipping and desktop stutters. Specifically, LatencyTOP focuses on the cases where the applications want to run and execute useful code, but there’s some resource that’s not currently available (and the kernel then blocks the process). This is done both on a system level and on a per process level, so that you can see what’s happening to the system, and which process is suffering and/or causing the delays. [break]