I couldn't duplicate this, when system times were high they were usually between 20-40% which seems high but not 80%. I am on Xcode 10.1, macOS 10.13.6 , a 4 core imac with 12 gb RAM and a hard drive not SSDs. I can't go to Mojave as it is an old iMac. I did make -j5 using ghc 8.6.2.
The Mac doesn't have truss or strace. It does have dtrace which I believe is the equivalent. It might be good to open a ticket for this. As the description of how to reproduce are a bit vague and the steps are manual, it would be ideal if there were modified make file(s) to capture statistics using sample and maybe dtrace or even time. Cheers George On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:10 PM Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > Richard Eisenberg <r...@cs.brynmawr.edu> writes: > > > OK. Well, I couldn't sample from Activity Monitor, because the > > processes came and went too quickly. But the terminal command `sample` > > takes a *name* as an argument, and so passing ghc-stage1 worked > > nicely. Samples were taken during rts_dist_HC calls. > > > Hmmm, it looks to me like all of these are from GHC waiting on various > things (e.g. _pthread_cond_wait, nanosleep, and pthread_join). It's > quite surprising that these operations are chewing through cycles in > kernel mode. I wonder how rapidly we are context switching. Perhaps we > are quickly jumping between kernel and user mode? Perhaps strace (or I > think the OS X equivalent is truss?) will shed some light? > > Cheers, > > - Ben >
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