Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>The thing that drives me crazy is that neither Doug nor Philip who both >>use almost the same version of everything on linux and using the same >>build options don't have this huge startup lag. I cannot figure out what >>it is that is different on my system that only I see this problem :( Any >>hints? I was trying to profile the startup to figure out where gdb >>spends most of the time but first I couldn't get any DSO loaded gprof >>data second I'm not sure I can really catch it. Should I use kernel >>level tracing? strace doesn't reveal anything interesting, it shows the >>PTRACE_PEEKTEXT op all the time, but nothing else I can use to aid my >>tracing. >> > > Is it possible that Doug and Philip do not have libthread_db installed, > in which case GDB won't try to be thread-aware? Or, actually, it could > be a gdb version issue. The slowness came with the current > thread-aware debugging package, which is fairly recent (snapshots from > a year ago through the release last week). I've checked, Philippe has libthread_db and running the same gdb version (the same release but he is on RH, while I'm on Mandrake Linux). _____________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ticketmaster.com http://apacheweek.com http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
