Topical Takes

Short, opinionated posts on eBPF, Linux internals, and the tools we all run in production.

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September 9, 2026

Why Is My Build Slow? How to See What It Is Running Thousands of Times (2026)

A slow build is usually not one slow step. It is a cheap command running per file when it should run once, or a step running twice. Fold every process launch into one row per kind of command to see the counts, and read the fork-to-exec median to separate a slow program from a slow launch.

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September 4, 2026

How to See Every Command Your Build Runs in CI on Linux: Capturing Them Is the Easy Part

Every exec a build starts is already visible to the kernel through the sched_process_exec tracepoint, so the hard part is volume and scope: execsnoop, strace -f, auditd, set -x and exectop compared on what each one can scope to one process tree and what each does with 7,745 lines of output.

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