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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Warren Harris <warrensomebody@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] gc overhead
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:54:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100301085430.GA16106@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37150F07-8902-464A-9A0E-44A0C424C87B@gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:16:03PM -0800, Warren Harris wrote:
> I would like to determine what percentage of my application's cpu time  
> is spent in the garbage collector (for tuning purposes, but also just  
> to monitor the overhead). Is there any way to obtain this information  
> short of using gprof? Additional information provided by Gc.stat would  
> be ideal, or perhaps a Gc.alarm that was called at the beginning of  
> the gc cycle, but neither of these seem to exist.

I would have to say what's wrong with using gprof?

On a related topic: Has anyone tried using SystemTap with userspace
DTrace-compatible probes to measure anything about total kernel +
userspace usage of OCaml programs?  ie, this sort of thing:

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/AddingUserSpaceProbingToApps

but with OCaml programs.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01  0:16 Warren Harris
2010-03-01  8:54 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2010-03-02 20:11   ` [Caml-list] " Warren Harris
2010-03-02 21:01     ` Peter Hawkins
2010-03-02 23:08       ` Warren Harris
2010-03-03  0:55         ` Peter Hawkins
2010-03-03  7:06           ` Warren Harris
2010-03-03  8:33             ` David MENTRE
2010-03-02 22:03 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-02 23:09   ` [Caml-list] " Warren Harris
2010-03-03  1:58     ` Edgar Friendly
2010-03-03  8:12       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-03  8:49 ` [Caml-list] " Olivier Andrieu
2010-03-03 11:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2017-11-28 18:11 Julia Lawall
2017-11-28 20:05 ` Yawar Amin
2017-11-29  6:20   ` Julia Lawall
2017-12-11 18:53   ` Julia Lawall
2017-12-11 20:56     ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-12-11 21:05       ` Julia Lawall

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