Re: Looking for help profiling GNUstep programs

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-06-30 15:20:33 +0100 Andrew Ruder <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > Am I doing something stupid?
> > Does anyone have experience with profiling share objc libraries (I'm 
> > working on debian unstable intel).
>
> I've had a good deal of luck with oprofile (which requires a kernel 
> component) for debugging gnustep.  With a 2.6.12 kernel, a kernel patch is 
> not required even for the callgraph support.  Simply compile with debug 
> symbols, start the oprofile daemon, run your program (in fact, you can even 
> start oprofile daemon while the program is running, i believe, if you want 
> to 
> just profile a certain section).  Oprofile can even output gprof compatible 
> output.

Thanks ... I'm already in the process of downloading the kernel packages etc 
to try oprofile (I don't have broadband) as it was the next thing I was 
going to try.
Good to hear that it works well ...

I had forgotten that callgrind existed (though I use valgrind quite often) 
... so perhaps I'll look at that too.