<div dir="ltr">While the point of perf not being available to non-root out of the box are valid (though, it's just apt-get install linux-tools + echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid away, and it's the best bargain you'll ever make), IMHO this is indeed apple vs apple comparison.<div>
<br></div><div>The goal of top's user is identical to the goal of perf's user - to find bottleneck in a live system.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il" target="_blank">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A. Apples are better than oranges.<br>
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B. perf top cannot be run by a non-root user.<br>
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