perf is a userspace interface to the kernel's perf events. Performance counters are CPU hardware registers that count hardware events such as instructions executed, cache-misses suffered, or branches mispredicted. They form a basis for profiling applications to trace dynamic control flow and identify hotspots. Please note that this SBo doesn't have any sources in the DOWNLOAD setting, as the sources are already part of a full slackware install. Optional dependencies: audit, numactl Another optional dependency is libunwind, but it's unsupported for now since it requires elfutils which we don't have yet on SBO.