4 engineers on Hacker News describe using strace first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“On Linux simple, plain "strace" remains one of my favourite first steps to find performance problems”
endorse · production · vidarh · 2021-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“strace is your friend”
endorse · production · myrandomcomment · 2020-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whenever I've had to use it in prod (in heavy OLTP environments) the seriousness of the issue has always outweighed any performance concerns.”
endorse · production · zwischenzug · 2018-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly strace and it's macos equivalent”
neutral · production · entelechy · 2025-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?