Re: Profiling (Was: Memory residence)

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:18 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > It would be good to get some profile data on Eclipse startup so we
 > > know for sure.
 > 
 > Are there good guides for doing profiling with oprofile and/or
 > valgrind/massif against gcj compiled executable and interpreting
 > the results? It would be a great addition to our documentation/faq
 > to have all the relevant information in one place. From following
 > some of the discussions on irc I got the impression that there are
 > still some bugs/workarounds needed to get accurate results (or at
 > least that one needs very recent versions). So if someone who has
 > done some profiling could do a little writeup that would be great.

I've had no trouble at all, so I don't know where the bugs other
people found may lie.

I just start oprofile, run the code, stop oprofile, and print the
reports with opreport -l.  It really is as easy as that.

Andrew.