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How to Use Linux Server Strace for Troubleshooting

03/07/2026 8 min Temporada 2 Episodio 88

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode of Linux Server Admin with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into strace — the powerful Linux system call tracer. They explain what strace does, walk through a real-world example of diagnosing a slow web server using strace -c, and cover practical flags like -f for tracing child processes and -e for filtering specific syscalls. They also discuss common pitfalls, such as performance impact in production, and how to combine strace with lsof or tcpdump for deeper analysis. By the end, you'll have a concrete debugging workflow you can use today.

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