How to application sample profiling?

[Stanislav Sedov]

> On Aug 23, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> 
> I have multi-thread application fully utilise all CPU cores.
> I am need to determine lines give mostly CPU loads.
> How I can do this?
> 
> `pmcstat -P BU_CPU_CLK_UNHALTED -t application_pid -n 500000 -O sample.out`
> consume to many CPU (performance drop x100 times) and mostly show
> himself in kernel and pmc locks and none for application.
> pmcstat -S BU_CPU_CLK_UNHALTED -- same here.
> 

Did you try something like `pmcstat -S instructions -T` by any chance?
That should give some quick clues as to which functions are being hot
at least.

Which FreeBSD version are you using by the way?

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