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Instead of strace, check out sysdig. It's significantly more powerful so long as you're willing to install the associated kernel modules: http://www.sysdig.org/

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There's also LTTng which is more mature and, arguably, more powerful too (and it does userspace tracing as well): http://lttng.org/

Full disclaimer: I'm am a contributor to the LTTng project.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

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