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Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Tue Nov 28 05:05:08 EST 2006


Hi,

so, can we have the sysprof kernel module for version 1.0.5 in future
images?

Would make much easier my intended work on profiling.

Thanks,

Tomeu

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:23 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if it was possible to have the sysprof kernel module for version 1.0.5
> instead of 1.0.3 (and the corresponding sysprof package on the devel
> image) it would make it much easier for profiling sugar.
> 
> >From version 1.0.5 sysprof comes with a text-mode collector that makes
> it much more useful for us. I think it would be easier to update the
> kernel module than to sugarize sysprof (or backport the 1.0.5
> sysprofile-text to use the 1.0.3 module).
> 
> Also I don't understand what means "oprofile may come for free as a
> result of sysprof", I think that oprofile needs it's own kernel module,
> although both use the same kernel infrastructure.
> 
> Don't know if it's possible/easy to use oprofile on the geode, but I
> think that would be nice to have both profilers in order to compare the
> results.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 03:14 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > Jim Gettys wrote:
> > >
> > > Blizzard:
> > >  - sysprof module has been added to kernel, is untested
> > >   
> > 
> > We used sysprof to debug the perfomance issues with xbook and tamtam. It 
> > works pretty well.
> > 
> > Marco
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