Re: about cpu_profiler

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On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Gregory Farnum wrote:
> On Friday, March 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Colin McCabe wrote: 
> > tl;dr: cpu_profiler may randomly crash your program on x86_64.
> > The problem "should" be resolved in the "future".
> 
> From what I've read, it's unfortunately not out of date. However, it 
> manifests itself as a crash so it's not the reason that we can't get 
> debugging output, unless there's something I'm missing. :) And even if 
> it turns out to be very unstable on x86-64, the value of a good cpu 
> profiler is high enough that we can set up x86 boxes or VMs... 

Yeah.  If it's not going to be reliable, though, it's not worth investing 
time/debugging effort into making it (sort of) work.

I suspect oprofile is the way to go here...

sage

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