On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:39 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:16:15 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:37 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > From: Soren Sandmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool > > > > > > The sysprof tool is a very easy to use GUI tool to find out where > > > userspace is spending CPU time. See > > > http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/ > > > for more information and screenshots on this tool. > > > > > > Sysprof needs a 200 line kernel module to do it's work, this > > > module puts some simple profiling data into debugfs. > > > > What is the added value over oprofile? > > it actually works and is usable by humans ;)
# sysprof (sysprof:12480): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: -ENOX > what oprofile doesn't do is the nice userland hierarchy of where cpu time is > spend. > (and that is also what makes it mostly useless in practice) so why not fix oprofile callgraph output and build a GUI on top of oprofile for those of us who really want RSI from mouse movement :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
