From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>,
Nick Savoiu <savoiu@yahoo.com>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB using a lot of CPU time and writing a lot to disk on startup
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac60eac0904201654h1775560se59718b127ccbfad@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090420234805.GA28850@caradoc.them.org>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:39:56PM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
>> > I used pstack every second until the debugging actually starts and here
>> > are all the unique #0 locations in the pstack output.
...
>> This output is bogus.
>
> I thought that too the first time I read it - but see his description
> of the output (above) again :-)
Oops. I see it now; thanks.
So most of the time (481 of 461) GDB is blocked in stat. Not a big surprize.
> Nick, it sounds to me like you're debugging something that you haven't
> got enough RAM for - is the disk I/O your swap space?
I don't (yet) see any evidence for swapping either. Do you?
Cheers,
--
Paul Pluzhnikov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 23:40 Nick Savoiu
2009-04-20 23:48 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-04-20 23:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-04-21 0:17 ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2009-04-21 5:22 ` Nick Savoiu
2009-04-21 15:52 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-04-21 19:04 ` Nick Savoiu
2009-04-21 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-22 6:42 ` Jonas Maebe
2009-04-22 17:23 ` Nick Savoiu
2009-04-22 17:35 ` Nick Savoiu
2009-04-22 17:39 ` Michael Snyder
2009-04-22 17:57 ` Jonas Maebe
2009-04-22 19:18 ` Toby Haynes
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