Tom Tromey writes: > Andrew> Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I've been running into the > Andrew> CVS slowdown issue while preparing our talks for GUADEC so I > Andrew> spent a bit more time profiling this afternoon. I've got two > Andrew> reports (from two independent runs of checking out gnu-crypto) > Andrew> that are pretty similar. I've attached bzipped versions of > Andrew> them. > > These look a bit weird, e.g.: > > 5384 7.8072 libgcj.so.6.0.0 java::lang::Compiler::Compiler() > 5358 7.7695 libgcj.so.6.0.0 __do_global_ctors_aux > > But Compiler's constructor is private and, afaik, never called. > And __do_global_ctors_aux should barely show up, I think. > > > Anthony ran into some problem where oprofile was finding the wrong > symbols. He upgraded and this was fixed. I don't know what versions > are affected. OK, so I'm not going to investigate this further. FWIW, my oprofile results have been accurate AFAICS. Oh, and Will Cohen is extremely helpful -- we should use him if we have oprofile problems. Andrew.
