On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:16:03PM -0800, Warren Harris wrote: > I would like to determine what percentage of my application's cpu time > is spent in the garbage collector (for tuning purposes, but also just > to monitor the overhead). Is there any way to obtain this information > short of using gprof? Additional information provided by Gc.stat would > be ideal, or perhaps a Gc.alarm that was called at the beginning of > the gc cycle, but neither of these seem to exist.
I would have to say what's wrong with using gprof? On a related topic: Has anyone tried using SystemTap with userspace DTrace-compatible probes to measure anything about total kernel + userspace usage of OCaml programs? ie, this sort of thing: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/AddingUserSpaceProbingToApps but with OCaml programs. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
