Process accounting/timing has broken recently

Andriy Gapon avg at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 6 18:46:21 UTC 2010


on 06/12/2010 20:43 Steve Kargl said the following:
> The 7-10 days is an estimate.  I upgraded world/kernel on
> Saturday.  The previous world/kernel could have been older
> than I'm guessing.  It could be upto 4 weeks old because
> my laptop tends to lag behind the upgrades to my servers.

I see.

> I would normally use gprof to measure execution times
> for the functions I'm writing, but in some quick
> testing last night gprof appears to be broken.  I'm 
> seeing a larger variation that I would expect in 
> self-seconds for the accumulated time for execution
> of expf.

Just guessing - could you try setting sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic=1 if it's
not 1 already?

And cc-ing Alexander, just in case.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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