From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: gc overhead
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:03:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhor2ok.ckm.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37150F07-8902-464A-9A0E-44A0C424C87B@gmail.com>
On 01-03-2010, Warren Harris <warrensomebody@gmail.com> 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.
>
You can have a look at:
http://ocamlviz.forge.ocamlcore.org
This allow to instrument your code and watch GC activity. I think that
with a little a little help on program side, you can be quite precise
about GC without using gprof at all. This should also be more
lightweight than gprof.
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-01 0:16 Warren Harris
2010-03-01 8:54 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-03-02 20:11 ` 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 [this message]
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
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