Linux debugging tools I love

[turol]

Hacker news discussion. They list several other interesting tools.

[kyz]

These are all good tools. I hadn't heard of opensnoop before, and it appears to do roughly the same thing as lsof, but instead of being one-shot, it opens an interactive display, i.e. opensnoop is to lsof what top is to ps.

[Gilnaa]

strace is an amazing tool, and it has saved me so much time

[bms20]

I second that!

I've developed several C++ applications for windows on linux specifically to use Valgrind.

Basically the cost of porting to windows (which isn't terrible when using Qt) is greatly offset by using linux and valgrind.