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Date:      Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:11:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, pb@fasterix.freenix.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel profiling 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906261709440.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <21070.930412938@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906261616390.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Do
> ug Rabson writes:
> 
> >> You can enable kernel profiling by configure kernel with `-p' or '-pp'
> >> option. See config(8) and kgmon(8) for detail.
> >> 
> >> I have a patch for FreeBSD/alpha to support kernel profiling.
> >
> >Another excellent alternative for kernel profiling is iprobe.
> 
> Not to mention compiling with "-g -a" and using kernbb to get Basic
> Block profiling.

I have not tried that. Iprobe is a nice low-overhead flat profiler which
can correlate time spent in both the kernel and user-mode processes. If
you don't need call-graph information and are using an alpha, it is
an excellent tool.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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