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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: jason-swarelist@molenda.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ofogdy1d.fsf@creche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2950-Wed12Sep2001190334+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

Eli> I'm mostly worried about getting noise into the profile, due to
Eli> profiling that starts as soon as GDB starts running, until you
Eli> turn it off with moncontrol.  That noise might hide interesting
Eli> details, and might trick a developer to dismiss important
Eli> findings as noise.

moncontrol(0) is called as the second thing in main().  That's pretty
early.  My experience with this patch from when I wrote it is that the
startup noise is ignorable.  If it shows up anywhere near the top of
your call graph then you probably don't have a real performance
problem to worry about.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-12 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-10  0:30 Jason Molenda
2001-09-10  8:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-10  8:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-10  9:04     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-10 11:52   ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-10 13:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-10 13:59       ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-11  0:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <no.id>
1999-06-15 20:10             ` Missing routines: gdb/top.c John David Anglin
2001-09-11  1:37             ` [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command Jason Molenda
2001-09-11  1:57               ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-12  0:00             ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-12  6:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-12  7:42                 ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-12  9:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-12 11:58                     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2001-09-12 13:16                       ` Jason Molenda
2008-08-06 19:24             ` [patch] Don't set DT_HP_DEBUG_PRIVATE in solib-pa64.c John David Anglin
2008-08-06 19:49               ` Mark Kettenis
2008-08-06 20:09                 ` John David Anglin
2008-08-06 23:10                 ` John David Anglin
2008-08-07 21:39               ` [patch] Only force private mapping of shared libraries in solib-som.c on HP-UX 10 and earlier John David Anglin
2008-08-08 10:48                 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-08 15:34                   ` John David Anglin
2008-08-09 14:37                     ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-09 18:59                       ` John David Anglin
2008-08-08 19:30             ` ttrace: Protocal error John David Anglin
2008-08-08 20:16               ` John David Anglin
2008-08-09 14:52                 ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-09 15:34                   ` John David Anglin
2008-08-09 18:49                   ` John David Anglin
2008-08-09 22:45                     ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-09 22:46                   ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-09 22:51                     ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-09 23:19                       ` John David Anglin
2008-08-09 22:48                   ` Pedro Alves
2008-08-09 14:53                 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-08-09 23:40             ` John David Anglin
2008-08-10  0:46             ` [4/7] Adjust the ttrace target (HP-UX) to always register the John David Anglin
2008-09-15  2:08             ` [PATCH] Fix dwarf register column to gdb register mapping John David Anglin
2008-09-15  2:24             ` [PATCH] Fix hppa_linux_sigtramp_frame_unwind_cache John David Anglin
2001-09-12 11:28     ` [RFA] patch to add 'maint profile-gdb' command Andrew Cagney
2001-09-12 11:43     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-16 17:45       ` [RFA] Version 2 of " Jason Molenda
     [not found]         ` <200109170536.HAA21988@is.elta.co.il>
2001-09-17 15:08           ` Michael Snyder
2001-09-17 22:43           ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-17 23:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-24 13:33               ` Jason Molenda
2001-09-24 14:41                 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-24 14:58                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-24 15:13                     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-24 14:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-17 22:39         ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-18 17:52           ` Fernando Nasser
2001-09-18 17:56             ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-19  7:11               ` Fernando Nasser
2001-09-19  7:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-19  9:29                   ` Fernando Nasser
2001-09-19 11:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-19 11:41                     ` Andrew Cagney
2001-09-19 11:53                     ` Kevin Buettner

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