Profiling (Was: Memory residence)

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Thu May 26 15:24:00 GMT 2005


Bryce McKinlay writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > >Tom Tromey writes:
 > > > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > > > 
 > > > Andrew> I've had no trouble at all, so I don't know where the bugs other
 > > > Andrew> people found may lie.
 > > > 
 > > > I thought you ran into something where some specific version of
 > > > oprofile was finding the wrong symbols, giving misleading results...?
 > >
 > >Not me.  It happened to overholt, but I have always had perfect
 > >results.
 > 
 > Yeah, Overholt was getting bogus-looking profiles for eclipse, 
 > apparently even after upgrading his oprofile to the CVS head version. 
 > Possibly he had mismatched -debuginfo RPMs or something like that.

Ah yes, good thinking.  I've never used separate debuginfo RPMs, but
built real versions of the packages with debug info.

Andrew.



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