hi there, in a recent discussion on current@ [1], it was discovered that chromium makes excessive use of gettimeofday(2). while searching google, i found other software that is/was having the same issue [2]. although this is a programming error, it would still be nice, if freebsd could issue a warning in cases like these. would it be possible to instruct freebsd to issue a warning, when a process issues a certain amount of syscalls per second (maybe tuneable via sysctl)?
while calling gettimeofday(2) excessively isn't causing any harm, it triggers a lot of context switches and reduces performance. having such warnings in place could help a user identify such a process without having to use debugging tools, such as ktrace or dtrace. cheers. alex [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg131040.html [1] https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11687 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
