Re: [Gnash-dev] oprofile difficulties, easy access to debuginfo, and other thoughts

[Rob Savoye]

On 10/12/09 18:30, Michael Stone wrote:

> Lastly, if there's a simple solution out there or reason why our
> approach was doomed from the start, then I'd also appreciate it if you could 
> link to
> it a little bit more prominently from your wiki since Google doesn't seem to
> know anything about it. (Try, e.g., "gnash debug info", "gnash oprofile", "gnash
> profiling"; the latter query is the only one with real results on the first
> page and they say nothing at all about oprofile).

  Ok, I got my XO 1.5 updated, built fresh rpms, and installed them. 
You can grab my snapshot from http://www.getgnash/packages/fedora. Built 
11560 should work, it's what I installed. As far as I can tell, the 
debuginfo package I built has all the symbols. Now I'm trying to get 
oprofile running, but all the docs I find are out of date, and only 
refer to the older Geode based machines.

  So if somebody can give me pointers to getting oprofile up and 
running on the newer VIA based machine, I'd appreciate it. Then I can 
check the performance issues you mentioned, and add some info on our wiki.

  One thing I did find is all the animations I ran worked fine, even 
the bug nasty ones where scaling hurts performance. What didn't work 
well was was youtube. It seemed even worse than the older G1G1 machines 
for some reason. Embedded video tests worked good, so I assume the 
network overhead is what is killing performance for my quick tests.

  Overall, the XO 1.5 is sure much faster!

        - rob -