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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:49:49 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Process accounting/timing has broken recently
Message-ID:  <20101206184949.GA39028@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4CFD2F77.8020409@freebsd.org>
References:  <20101205231829.GA68156@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <201012060944.03196.jhb@freebsd.org> <20101206163830.GA53157@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <201012061301.13647.jhb@freebsd.org> <4CFD2A5B.1030006@freebsd.org> <20101206184309.GB38739@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4CFD2F77.8020409@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:46:15PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 06/12/2010 20:43 Steve Kargl said the following:
> > The 7-10 days is an estimate.  I upgraded world/kernel on
> > Saturday.  The previous world/kernel could have been older
> > than I'm guessing.  It could be upto 4 weeks old because
> > my laptop tends to lag behind the upgrades to my servers.
> 
> I see.
> 
> > I would normally use gprof to measure execution times
> > for the functions I'm writing, but in some quick
> > testing last night gprof appears to be broken.  I'm 
> > seeing a larger variation that I would expect in 
> > self-seconds for the accumulated time for execution
> > of expf.
> 
> Just guessing - could you try setting sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 if it's
> not 1 already?
> 
> And cc-ing Alexander, just in case.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll try this tonight (I left the
laptop at home) and will report back here.

-- 
Steve



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